The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W Burgess 1922

This is a beautiful and honest classic nature book intended to introduce children to the subject of animal life in North America.

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 them all gain a greater understanding of the mammals of North America. Starting with the animals close to home, the school moves in ever-widening circles to encompass the animals of the far west and the extreme north, as well. A fine introduction to mammals for students in the primary grades.

This book is a beautiful complement to any homeschool animal study units or as a nurturing bedtime story. 

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324 pages (approx.) with Original Full colour Illustrations

Table of Contents

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