Bubba: Happily Ever After

by Richard Engel, Deborah Dominguez, Sierra Mon Ann Vidal (Illustrator)

A gerbil named Bubba loved Debi but had a strong desire to roam the world and experience adventure. He escaped his habitat and found a way to fly to Europe in a carry-on bag, to eat in a ritzy hotel, to escape near death twice (by a cat and by drowning in the Mediterranean Sea), to enjoy art at the Louvre museum, and to save a missionary project in Libya. After all that he found his love for Debi mattered more and he returned to her with the help of the missionaries. During the last two years he has enjoyed living again with Debi, but not everything is OK.




36 pages, Paperback

Published April 28, 2021

About the author

Richard Engel is an American television journalist and author best known as NBC News's chief foreign correspondent. He was assigned to that position on April 18, 2008 from being the network's Middle East correspondent and Beirut Bureau chief. Engel was the first broadcast journalist recipient of the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his report "War Zone Diary."

Prior to joining NBC News in May 2003, he covered the start of the 2003 war in Iraq from Baghdad for ABC News as a freelance journalist. He speaks and reads Arabic fluently and is also fluent in Italian and Spanish. Engel wrote the book A Fist in the Hornet's Nest, published in 2004, about his experience covering the Iraq War from Baghdad. His newest book, War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq, published in June 2008, picks up where his last book left off.