Jeff Irvin's "The Texas Book of Beasts" is told through
a series of 25 short scenes featuring four characters:
a property developer, a university professor, an
idealistic biologist and a toad.
This cast of characters is involved in raucous public
meetings as the twenty-something woman learns
to organize a diverse community to save the
endangered toad's habitat from a
large encroaching development.
Featuring metaphors in verse, interjections in unison,
and group movements that mimic Texas fauna,
"The Texas Book of Beasts" is a melodrama and
romantic comedy about learning to recognize a sharp
brain and a good heart.