Mother West Wind's Children
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About This Book
Thornton Burgess was born in 1874 in Sandwich, Massachusetts. While growing up he explored the fields, woods, and salt marshes of Cape Cod, where he came to know the birds, animals, and plant life well. Later, as a grown man, he told stories to his young son about the animals and wildlife he knew and loved. These stories were collected in Old Mother West Wind, the first of more than seventy books by Mr. Burgess. A companion to that perennial favorite, Mother West Wind's Children is a collection of fifteen "Why" stories: Why are Peter Rabbit's ears so long? Why does Reddy Fox have no friends? H...
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- MOTHER WEST WIND'S CHILDREN
- THORNTON W. BURGESS
- Author of "Old Mother West Wind"
- Illustrated by George Kerr
- GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers New York By arrangement with Little, Brown and Company
- TO ALL THE LITTLE FRIENDS OF JOHNNY CHUCK AND REDDY FOX, AND TO ALL WHO LOVE THE GREEN MEADOWS AND THE SMILING POOL, THE LAUGHING BROOK AND THE MERRY LITTLE BREEZES, THIS LITTLE BOOK IS DEDICATED.
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- "YAP-YAP-YAP," BARKED REDDY FOX, AS LOUD AS HE COULD . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece MR. RABBIT HAD A GREAT DEAL OF CURIOSITY, A VERY GREAT DEAL, INDEED THEN EVERYBODY SHOUTED "HAW! HAW! HAW!" HE WAS SO SURPRISED HE FORGOT TO CLOSE IT
- MOTHER WEST WIND'S CHILDREN
- I DANNY MEADOW MOUSE LEARNS WHY HIS TAIL IS SHORT
- II WHY REDDY FOX HAS NO FRIENDS
- III WHY PETER RABBIT'S EARS ARE LONG
- Mr. Rabbit had a great deal of curiosity, a very great deal, indeed.
- IV REDDY FOX DISOBEYS
- V STRIPED CHIPMUNK'S POCKETS
- VI REDDY FOX, THE BOASTER
- Then everybody shouted "Haw! haw! haw!"
- VII JOHNNY CHUCK'S SECRET
- VIII JOHNNY CHUCK'S GREAT FIGHT
- IX MR. TOAD'S OLD SUIT
- X GRANDFATHER FROG GETS EVEN
- He was so surprised he forgot to close it.
- XI THE DISAPPOINTED BUSH
- XII WHY BOBBY COON WASHES HIS FOOD
- XIII THE MERRY LITTLE BREEZES HAVE A BUSY DAY
- XIV WHY HOOTY THE OWL DOES NOT PLAY ON THE GREEN MEADOWS
- XV DANNY MEADOW MOUSE LEARNS TO LAUGH
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