307U: An industrious beaver

I am searching for a picture book from my youth about a beaver that became increasingly industrious and started turning into some sort of earth-moving machine – a bulldozer or steam-shovel, I can’t really recall.  Had the usual overtones about destroying the environment.  Anyway I remember really liking it and am now looking for it for my son.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.  My Google searching efforts have been in vain since I can’t remember the title or author at all.

4 thoughts on “307U: An industrious beaver

  1. Alastair

    That sounded really familiar, but I think the book I am thinking of is similar, but not old enough . . . Tidy by Emily Gravett

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  2. Vernon M Kaiawe

    I think I’m SEARCHING for the same book. All I know about it is the beaver (I do believe) gradually transforms into a dozer and moves a giant tree. At the end of the “battle”, the tree is knocked over but the dozer/beaver dies.
    But there’s a young tree sprouting from the tree ruins and a beaver in a family is born with larger teeth.
    I was young when reading this book so I’m assuming it’s late 70’s early 80’s.
    ????

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