Kent in his Den

This is Kent in his "den". I guess people would call it an office now, but it was always a den with Kent. And he always had one, in every home. This is the room he wrote all of his books in.  The roadrunner print is a Guy Cohleach, I believe. He loved his work. The model airplane was one he made. He made model airplanes his whole life. The one in this picture is the Red Baron airplane that Kent found the missing baby flying squirrels in when they disappeared from the cage in his den. The story is documented in "A Fine and Peaceful Kingdom"

For the first two weeks the entire family {of flying squirrels} stayed in the bird cage. Then, one evening, the youngsters discovered they could get through the wire bars easily but their mother couldn't.......One morning the youngsters were missing. I looked everywhere, under everything, in every conceivable hiding place. The door had been closed, so I was certain they couldn't have left the room. I was baffled. 

I double-checked every likely place, with no luck. Then I heard a stir above me. Hanging from my ceiling is a radio-controlled scale model of a World War I German fighter - the old open-cockpit type, with plenty of wires strung about - that I built the year before and had hung there after having flown it three times and crashed it three times. Now, looking up, I saw two pairs of large eyes peering down at me from the cockpit of the Fokker. It was unbelievable. The tiny squirrels were in exact scale to the aircraft. With their goggle-like eyes they looked absolutely at home. I called the family, and everyone had a good laugh at that new pilots. of the Fokker. It was a good place for them, I said. "After all, they're flying squirrels."