The Burgess animal book for children
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1924
- Author
- Burgess, Thornton W.
- Publisher
- Boston, Little, Brown and Company
- Call Number
- 03.2 B91t
- Author
- Burgess, Thornton W.
- Publisher
- Boston, Little, Brown and Company
- Published Date
- 1924
- Physical Description
- xvii, 363 pages color frontispiece, plates (some color) 20 cm
- Abstract
- This book, originally published in 1920, is a call to learn more about the animals with which we share our world, and how precious they are, through stories.
- Contents
- Preface -- Jenny Wren gives Peter Rabbit an idea -- Peter and Jumper go to school -- More of Peter's long-legged cousins -- Chatterer and Happy Jack join -- The squirrels of the trees -- Striped chipmunk and his cousins -- Johnny Chuck joins the class -- Whistler and Yap Yap -- Two queer little haymakers -- Prickly Porky and Grubby Gopher -- A fellow with a thousand spears -- A lumberman and engineer -- A worker and a robber -- A trader and a handsome fellow -- Two unlike little cousins -- Danny's northern cousins and Nimbleheels -- Three little redcoats and some others -- Mice with pockets, and others -- Teeny Weeny and his cousin -- Four busy little miners -- Flitter the bat and his family -- An independent family -- Digger and his cousin Glutton -- Shadow and his family -- Two famous swimmers -- Spite the martin and Pekan the fisher -- Reedy Fox joins the school -- Old Man Coyote and Howler the Wolf -- Yowler and his cousin Tuffy -- Some big and little cat cousins -- Bobby Coon arrives -- Buster Bear nearly breaks up school -- Buster Bear's big cousins -- Unc' Billy and Old Mrs. Possum -- Lightfoot, Blacktail, and Forkhorn -- Bugler, Flathorns and Wanderhoof -- Thunderfoot, Fleetfoot and Longcoat -- Two wonderful mountain climbers -- Piggy and Hardshell -- The mammals of the sea -- Index.
- Notes
- Delicate handwritten note in front cover, tied for protection.
- Accession Number
- 492
- Call Number
- 03.2 B91t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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