The Burgess Animal Book for Children
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About This Book
When Jenny Wren learns that Peter Rabbit would like to know more about the four-footed friends who share the Green Meadows and Green Forest with him, she encourages him to speak with Old Mother Nature who is only too happy to help. During their "classroom" chats, she not only teaches Peter about Arctic Hare and Antelope Jack but also tells him about such creatures as Flying Squirrel, Mountain Beaver, Pocket Gopher, Grasshopper Mouse, Silvery Bat, Mule Deer, and Grizzly Bear.Told with all the warmth and whimsy of Burgess's stories, this engaging book acquaints youngsters with many forms of wild...
Chapters (43)
- THE BURGESS ANIMAL BOOK FOR CHILDREN
- PREFACE
- THE BURGESS ANIMAL BOOK FOR CHILDREN
- CHAPTER I Jenny Wren Gives Peter Rabbit an Idea
- CHAPTER II Peter and Jumper go to School
- CHAPTER III More of Peter's Long-Legged Cousins
- CHAPTER IV Chatterer and Happy Jack Join
- CHAPTER V The Squirrels of the Trees
- CHAPTER VI Striped Chipmunk and his Cousins
- CHAPTER VII Johnny Chuck Joins the Class
- CHAPTER VIII Whistler and Yap Yap
- CHAPTER IX Two Queer Little Haymakers
- CHAPTER X Prickly Porky and Grubby Gopher
- CHAPTER XI A Fellow With a Thousand Spears
- CHAPTER XII A Lumberman and Engineer
- CHAPTER XIII A Worker and a Robber
- CHAPTER XIV A Trader and a Handsome Fellow
- CHAPTER XV Two Unlike Little Cousins
- CHAPTER XVI Danny's Northern Cousins and Nimbleheels
- CHAPTER XVII Three Little Redcoats and Some Others
- CHAPTER XVIII Mice with Pockets, and Others
- CHAPTER XIX Teeny Weeny and His Cousin
- CHAPTER XX Four Busy Little Miners
- CHAPTER XXI Flitter the Bat and His Family
- CHAPTER XXII An Independent Family
- CHAPTER XXIII Digger and His Cousin Glutton
- CHAPTER XXIV Shadow and His Family
- CHAPTER XXV Two Famous Swimmers
- CHAPTER XXVI Spite the Marten and Pekan the Fisher
- CHAPTER XXVII Reddy Fox Joins the School
- CHAPTER XXVIII Old Man Coyote and Howler the Wolf
- CHAPTER XXIX Yowler and His Cousin Tufty
- CHAPTER XXX Some Big and Little Cat Cousins
- CHAPTER XXXI Bobby Coon Arrives
- CHAPTER XXXII Buster Bear Nearly Breaks Up School
- CHAPTER XXXIII Buster Bear's Big Cousins
- CHAPTER XXXIV Unc' Billy and Old Mrs. Possum
- CHAPTER XXXV Lightfoot, Blacktail and Forkhorn
- CHAPTER XXXVI Bugler, Flathorns and Wanderhoof
- CHAPTER XXXVII Thunderfoot, Fleetfoot and Longcoat
- CHAPTER XXXVIII Two Wonderful Mountain Climbers
- CHAPTER XXXIX Piggy and Hardshell
- CHAPTER XL The Mammals of the Sea
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