Hannah gifted both sets of parents and ourselves with a great collection of children’s books this Christmas. Without a doubt, my favorite was Knut: How One Little Bear Captivated the World. I admit I was strictly judging the books by their covers, so I had no idea this was a story about a real bear. Let alone, a huge celebrity animal with his own website. Several, actually, but I liked the knute.net one the best. I was even more impressed after searching Amazon a bit, and realizing the book is popular enough to have a spanish translation. And a DVD. Although, I was a little surprised that 5% of Amazon customers buy Inglorious Basterds after viewing the listing for the Knut and Friends DVD.
Anyway, I was planning on giving the books a read through once Maggie was born. That way we could both enjoy them for the first time together. Then Brian, my brother, sent me a message the other day about Knut. Brian’s as big a fan of the Knut book as I am, but he also was judging the books by their covers. His message:
I just saw this story about Knut. I guess he’s a real bear. Who knew?
Apparently, lots of people knew. Just not the two Miller boys. Consider us in the know now. Brian had a story come across his computer about Knut possibly being castrated, and passed it along to me. I didn’t ask how that came up at work, but was naturally grateful that a story of a bear being castrated reminded him of me. I now know that Knut is a real bear with lots of real problems.
Brian has assured me he will not seek out a sequel to Knut, although he’s certain someone will write Knoe Knut sometime soon.
I will have it known that I came accross the article by simply clicking a headline that read “PETA’s going after Knut the polar bear”