The Burgess Animal Book [SCM]
by Thornton W. Burgess Author
Abundantly illustrated, simply written classic by a master storyteller acquaints youngsters with the habits and characteristics of four-footed animals. Porcupines, field mice, squirrels, coyotes, and other creatures take on appealing personalities in informative, entertaining tales about the inhabitants of the Green Forest and beyond. Focuses on mammals of North America.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0-486-43745-0
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 40
- Pages
- 275
- Suggested Grades
- Early Years - 6th
- Geographical Setting
- North America
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Copyright
- 2004
- Written
- 1920
- URL
- http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2441
Chapters
- 1 Jenny Wren Gives Peter Rabbit an Idea
- 2 Peter and Jumper Go to School
- 3 More of Peter's Long-Legged Cousins
- 4 Chatterer and Happy Jack Join
- 5 The Squirrels of the Trees
- 6 Striped Chipmunk and His Cousins
- 7 Johnny Chuck Joins the Class
- 8 Whistler and Yap Yap
- 9 Two Queer Little Haymakers
- 10 Prickly Porky and Grubby Gopher
- 11 A Fellow with a Thousand Spears
- 12 A Lumberman and Engineer
- 13 A Worker and a Robber
- 14 A Trader and a Handsome Fellow
- 15 Two Unlike Little Cousins
- 16 Danny's Northern Cousins, and Nimbleheels
- 17 Three Little Redcoats and Some Others
- 18 Mice with Pockets, and Others
- 19 Teeny Weeny and His Cousin
- 20 Four Busy Little Miners
- 21 Flitter the Bat and His Family
- 22 An Independent Family
- 23 Digger and His Cousin Glutton
- 24 Shadow and His Family
- 25 Two Famous Swimmers
- 26 Spite the Marten and Pekan the Fisher
- 27 Reddy Fox Joins the School
- 28 Old Man Coyote and Howler the Wolf
- 29 Yowler and His Cousin Tufty
- 30 Some Big and Little Cat Cousins
- 31 Bobby Coon Arrives
- 32 Buster Bear Nearly Breaks Up School
- 33 Buster Bear's Big Cousins
- 34 Unc' Billy and Old Mrs. Possum
- 35 Lightfoot, Blacktail and Forkhorn
- 36 Bugler, Flathorns and Wanderhoof
- 37 Thunderfoot, Fleetfoot and Longcoat
- 38 Two Wonderful Mountain Climbers
- 39 Piggy and Hardshell
- 40 The Mammals of the Sea
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