The Burgess Bird Book for Children
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About This Book
Parents, teachers, and young readers all over the world have enthusiastically welcomed the Dover reprints of Thornton Burgess's classic nature books, including the perennial bestseller, The Adventures of Peter Cottontail. In the present volume, the author's goal of introducing children to the fascinating subject of bird life is brilliantly realized in story fashion. While "interviewing" Slaty the Junco, Redwing the Blackbird, Melody the Wood Thrush, Spooky the Screech Owl, and dozens of other common birds, our guides, Peter Rabbit and saucy Jenny Wren — and, of course, the reader — learn about...
Chapters (49)
- THE BURGESS BIRD BOOK FOR CHILDREN
- PREFACE
- EXPANDED CONTENTS
- THE BURGESS BIRD BOOK FOR CHILDREN
- CHAPTER I. Jenny Wren Arrives.
- CHAPTER II. The Old Orchard Bully.
- CHAPTER III. Jenny Has a Good Word for Some Sparrows.
- CHAPTER IV. Chippy, Sweetvoice, and Dotty.
- CHAPTER V. Peter Learns Something He Hadn't Guessed.
- CHAPTER VI. An Old Friend In a New Home.
- CHAPTER VII. The Watchman of the Old Orchard.
- CHAPTER VIII. Old Clothes and Old Houses.
- CHAPTER IX. Longbill and Teeter.
- CHAPTER X. Redwing and Yellow Wing.
- CHAPTER XI. Drummers and Carpenters.
- CHAPTER XII. Some Unlikely Relatives.
- CHAPTER XIII. More of the Blackbird Family.
- CHAPTER XIV. Bob White and Carol the Meadow Lark.
- CHAPTER XV. A Swallow and One Who Isn't.
- CHAPTER XVI. A Robber in the Old Orchard.
- CHAPTER XVII. More Robbers.
- CHAPTER XVIII. Some Homes in the Green Forest.
- CHAPTER XIX. A Maker of Thunder and a Friend in Black.
- CHAPTER XX. A Fisherman Robbed.
- CHAPTER XXI. A Fishing Party.
- CHAPTER XXII. Some Feathered Diggers.
- CHAPTER XXIII. Some Big Mouths.
- CHAPTER XXIV. The Warblers Arrive.
- CHAPTER XXV. Three Cousins Quite Unlike.
- CHAPTER XXVI. Peter Gets a Lame Neck.
- CHAPTER XXVII. A New Friend and an Old One.
- CHAPTER XXVIII. Peter Sees Rosebreast and Finds Redcoat.
- CHAPTER XXIX. The Constant Singers.
- CHAPTER XXX. Jenny Wren's Cousins.
- CHAPTER XXXI. Voices of the Dusk.
- CHAPTER XXXII. Peter Saves a Friend and Learns Something.
- CHAPTER XXXIII. A Royal Dresser and a Late Nester.
- CHAPTER, XXXIV. Mourner the Dove and Cuckoo.
- CHAPTER XXXV. A Butcher and a Hummer.
- CHAPTER XXXVI. A Stranger and a Dandy.
- CHAPTER XXXVII. Farewells and Welcomes.
- CHAPTER XXXVIII. Honker and Dippy Arrive.
- CHAPTER XXXIX. Peter Discovers Two Old Friends.
- CHAPTER XL. Some Merry Seed-Eaters.
- CHAPTER XLI. More Friends Come With the Snow.
- CHAPTER XLII. Peter Learns Something About Spooky.
- CHAPTER XLIII. Queer Feet and a Queerer Bill.
- CHAPTER XLIV. More Folks in Red.
- CHAPTER XLV. Peter Sees Two Terrible Feathered Hunters.
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