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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... Read Full Overview

The Burgess Animal Book for Children is a book about Peter Rabbit finding out about the animals around him in the Green Meadows and Green Forest. Old Mother Nature gets him under her wing and teaches him about her four-footed friends. Each day brings another story about one or... Read Full Overview

To answer Peter Rabbit's questions about his relatives, Old Mother Nature holds a school for the animals every day at sun-up for a month. Encouraging the animals to notice the differences between them and to offer their observations of animal behavior, Old Mother Nature helps... Read Full Overview

This spectacular story by Thornton Burgess offers a lively narrative and descriptions of the many animals Peter Rabbit encounters in each and every chapter. We join Peter Rabbit who is very curious about the other animals in his forest. Mother Goose agrees to teach him about... Read Full Overview

To answer Peter Rabbit's questions about his relatives, Old Mother Nature holds a school for the animals every day at sun-up for a month. Encouraging the animals to notice the differences between them and to offer their observations of animal behavior, Old Mother Nature helps... Read Full Overview

The Burgess Animal Book for Children By Thornton W. Burgess

Following the success of "The Burgess Bird Book for Children", Thornton W. Burgess' fans clamored for more, thus prompting the author to produce "The Burgess Animal Book for Children", a work similar to its predecessor. In this work the author instead turns his attention to... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview