The Burgess Seashore Book for Children (Dover Storybooks for Children)
by Thornton W. Burgess Author
(From Amazon): Danny Meadow Mouse, Jimmy Skunk, and Reddy Fox explore every nook and cranny of coastal areas and learn firsthand about the habits and habitats of spider crabs, sea cucumbers, sand eels, and seahorses. Veteran storyteller Thornton Burgess shares information with his young readers about dozens of creatures that thrive along the Atlantic shoreline. 48 illustrations.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9780486442532
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 40
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Copyright
- 2005
Chapters
- 1 Danny Meadow Mouse Goes to the Seashore
- 2 Getting Acquainted
- 3 Danny Meets Tattler
- 4 A Meeting with Crabs
- 5 A Crab Town and a Hermit
- 6 Danny Gets and Eyeful
- 7 Clams and More Clams
- 8 Reddy Meets Barker the Seal
- 9 Reddy Fox Meets Big Claw
- 10 A Lobster and a Crab That Cannot Pinch
- 11 Graywing Knows his Crabs
- 12 A Queer Host and a Queerer Guest
- 13 The Queer Fellow Who Could Open Oysters
- 14 When Seeming Loss is Really Gain
- 15 The Innocent-Looking Drillers
- 16 Collars of Sand and Mermaids' Purses
- 17 Prickly Porkies of the Sea
- 18 Shells that Swim and Shells that Walk
- 19 The Curious Home of a Fish
- 20 Pa Stickleback Does His Duty
- 21 The Queer Jelly
- 22 Reddy Fox Sees a Queer Garden
- 23 More Garden Folk
- 24 Graywing's Little Joke
- 25 The Horse That Wasn't a Horse
- 26 Some Upside Down People
- 27 The Queer Disappearance
- 28 The Ink Maker
- 29 Queer Climbers and their Relatives
- 30 Reddy Learns Something about Snails
- 31 Reddy Learns Something about Seaweed
- 32 Reddy Finds Himself Mistaken
- 33 Reddy Finds Graywing in Trouble
- 34 Some Curious Worms
- 35 Reddy Finds Some More Worms
- 36 A Worm That Isn't a Worm
- 37 Reddy and Jimmy Go Fishing
- 38 Some Feathered Beach Folk
- 39 The Stake Driver
- 40 Two Long-Legged Cousins
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