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  • Mother West Wind ’How’ Stories
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    Children will love hearing, and reading, how Old King Eagle got his white head, what happened when Old Mr. Mink first tried to swim, how Old Mr. Toad learned to sing, that Old Mr. Crow used to have a double tongue and how he came to lose it, how Howler th ...
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    16,53 €

  • Mother West Wind ’When’ Stories
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    Learn about when Mr. Bluebird won his beautiful coat, when Old Mr. Gopher got pockets, why Old Mr. Grouse got his snowshoes, how Old Mr. Panther lost his honor, why Old Mr. Rat became an outcast, why Mr. Moose loses his horns every year, and ten other sto ...
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    16,49 €

  • Old Mother West Wind
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    “Old Mother West Wind came down from the Purple Hills in the golden light of the early morning. Over her shoulders was slung a bag—a great big bag — and in the bag were all of Old Mother West Wind’s children, the Merry Little Breezes.” * * * * And so begi ...
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    18,72 €

  • The Adventures of Poor Mrs Quack
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    Thornton W Burgess was born in 1874 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He was known as a conservationist and writer of children’s books. Burgess loved the beauty of nature so much that during a fifty-year span he wrote 170 books and 15000 stories centered on nature and animals. Peter Rabbit and Jerry Muskrat are two of his most memorable characters. An excerpt reads, 'Sometimes th...
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    15,85 €

  • The Adventures of Old Man Coyote
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    Just then it came again, a sound such as neither Peter Rabbit nor Jimmy Skunk had ever heard before. Peter’s teeth began to chatter. Never had the Green Meadows or the Green Forest heard anything like it. It sounded something like Hooty the Owl, and Dippy ...
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    18,75 €

  • The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad
    Thornton W Burgess
    Old Mr. Toad is acting strangely, and his behavior puzzles his friends in the Green Meadow. He is in a hurry, and Old Mr. Toad never hurries unless he is in danger. But this time he says he has a very important engagement. See what Jimmy Skunk, Peter Cott ...
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    18,75 €

  • Whitefoot the Woodmouse
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    There is not one of all the little people in the Green Forest who has so many enemies to watch out for as has Whitefoot the Woodmouse. There are ever so many who would like nothing better than to dine on plump little Whitefoot. There are Buster Bear and B ...
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    18,81 €

  • Lightfoot the Deer
    Thornton W Burgess
    Wonderfully handsome was Lightfoot the Deer, or so all the animals in The Green Forest thought. With his majestic antlers and proud bearing, he was quite a sight when he moved through the forest. But Lightfoot was worried. It was Autumn, and the hunters w ...
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    18,89 €

  • Blacky the Crow
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    Blacky the Crow is always watching for things not intended for his sharp eyes. The result is that he gets into no end of trouble which he could avoid. In this respect he is just like his cousin, Sammy Jay. Between them they see a great deal with which ...
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    18,95 €

  • The Burgess Animal Book for Children
    Thornton W. Burgess
    Naturalist and author Thornton W. Burgess uses his considerable storytelling abilities to bring to life this delightful introduction to zoology for young readers.Peter Rabbit is curious. He wants to know everything there is to know about the other animals in the forest. He pesters Old Mother Nature with so many questions that she agrees to hold a special school for all the an...
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    26,42 €

  • The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse by Thornton Burgess, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy & Magic
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    WAS DANNY MEADOW MOUSE’S TAIL TOO SHORT? Danny certainly thought so. Cousin Whitefoot’s elegant tail was certainly much longer. One day Danny was so morose on the subject, he almost didn’t notice Old Whitetail the Marsh Hawk swooping down. Whew! He escaped, though -- You see, Danny had a problem. Not only was Danny a mouse, he was a plump, tasty-looking mouse. Reddy Fox wanted ...
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    21,89 €

  • The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse by Thornton Burgess, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy & Magic
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    WAS DANNY MEADOW MOUSE’S TAIL TOO SHORT? Danny certainly thought so. Cousin Whitefoot’s elegant tail was certainly much longer. One day Danny was so morose on the subject, he almost didn’t notice Old Whitetail the Marsh Hawk swooping down. Whew! He escaped, though -- You see, Danny had a problem. Not only was Danny a mouse, he was a plump, tasty-looking mouse. Reddy Fox wanted ...
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    10,49 €

  • The Adventures of Mr. Mocker
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
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    13,67 €

  • Mother West Wind’s Children
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    Thornton W Burgess was born in 1874 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He was known as a conservationist and writer of children’s books. Burgess loved the beauty of nature so much that during a fifty-year span he wrote 170 books and over 150 stories centered on nature and animals. Peter Rabbit and Jerry Muskrat are two of his most memorable characters. Mother West Wind’s Children ...
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    16,96 €

  • Mother West Wind ’How’ Stories by Thornton Burgess, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy & Magic
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    At the edge of the old briar-patch sits Peter Rabbit -- staring into the sky, his head tipped so far back it makes his neck ache!Up in the sky, a black speck sails across the snowy white face of a cloud. How could that little speck be alive, way up there? But Peter knows it is -- and he knows who it is: King Eagle, who, by and by, disappears over the Great Mountain. Peter rubs ...
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    21,89 €

  • The Adventures of Buster Bear by Thornton Burgess, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy & Magic
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    Grandfather Frog has a hard time keeping a straight face -- for Buster Bear has outsmarted that rash Little Joe Otter! But then along comes Farmer Brown’s boy, and --’Twas just a sudden odd surpriseMade Farmer Brown’s boy’s hair to rise!And now who’s outsmarting whom?Readers will take joy as their familiar friends -- Billy Mink, Blacky the Crow, Jerry Muskrat, and Sammy Jay -- ...
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    10,57 €

  • The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer by Thornton Burgess, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy & Magic
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    'Men are strange creatures! I think I’ll hunt one some day just to teach him a lesson,' says Lightfoot the Deer to his new friend, Peter Rabbit. Lightfoot is glad of all the animal friends he meets in the Green Forest -- especially Paddy the Beaver, who saves him from harm. But what about these men? There’s that strange one -- the farmer. Should Lightfoot trust this man -- when...
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    10,49 €

  • The Adventures of Paddy Beaver
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    Thornton W Burgess was born in 1874 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He was known as a conservationist and writer of children’s books. Burgess loved the beauty of nature so much that during a fifty-year span he wrote 170 books and 15000 stories centered on nature and animals. Peter Rabbit and Jerry Muskrat are two of his most memorable characters. The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver ...
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    16,10 €

  • Old Granny Fox by Thornton Burgess, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy & Magic
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    'I never yet saw a young Fox who didn’t think he knew all there is to know -- and you’re just like the rest!'Old Granny Fox says this to Reddy Fox, who thinks it will be as easy as pie to steal Farmer Brown’s chickens by daylight and then elude Bowser the Hound.But in this entertaining tale of the winter woods, it turns out even wise Old Granny Fox can be caught napping! ...
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    11,34 €

  • The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk by Thornton Burgess, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy & Magic
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    Peter Rabbit of the Brier-patch is full of mischief today -- and hopes to pull a little prank on Jimmy Skunk and Reddy Fox. But maybe you know the rhyme: 'When Jimmy Skunk is angry Then everyone watch out! It’s better far at such a time To be nowhere about! In this delightful tale of field and meadow, Peter Rabbit gets in more trouble than he bargains for -- with a horde of Yel...
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    11,38 €

  • The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack by Thornton Burgess, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy & Magic
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    'Bang! Bang! Bang! Not a feather spare!'  So go the guns ripping the air after poor Mrs. Quack! And now Mr. Quack has gone missing along the Big River -- and Peter Rabbit, try as he might, can think of no way to help. Then Sammy the Bluejay and Blacky the Crow arrive!   ...
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    10,49 €

  • The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat by Thornton Burgess, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy & Magic
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    Father Brown’s son is stirring a commotion among all the denizens of the meadow -- for he sets an armload of traps all around Smiling Pool.Jerry Muskrat and Little Joe Otter, with the help of old Grandfather Frog, fix things up fine. But the traps are only the beginning of their troubles -- for then the Smiling Pool stops smiling, and the Laughing Brooks stops laughing!Thornton...
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    10,57 €

  • The Adventures of Mr. Mocker by Thornton Burgess, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy & Magic
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    'If you please, Mistah Buzzard, you can tell me if there is anybody way down South where you come from who can make his voice sound just like the voices of other people. Is there?' Bobby was using his very politest manner.'Cert’nly! Cert’nly!' chuckled Ol’ Mistah Buzzard. 'It’s Mistah Mockah the Mocking-bird. Why, that bird just likes to go around making trouble; he just natura...
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    10,57 €

  • Whitefoot the Woodmouse by Thornton Burgess, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy & Magic
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    Whitefoot the Woodmouse had been running and jumping all around the inside of the little sugar-house. He loves to run and jump, and he had been having just the best time ever. Finally Whitefoot ran along the old bench and jumped from the end of it for a box standing on end, which Farmer Brown’s boy sometimes used to sit on. It wasn’t a very long jump, but somehow Whitefoot misj...
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    11,36 €

  • The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess / W. Burgess Thornton W. Burgess / WBurgess Thornton WBurgess
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    21,24 €

  • The Adventures Of Chatterer The Red Squirrel
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    15,46 €

  • The Adventures of Reddy Fox by Thornton Burgess, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy & Magic
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    Granny Fox said, 'Now, Reddy Fox, you run across the bridge and watch from the top of the little hill over there. Perhaps I can show you a trick that will teach you why I have made you learn to run across the bridge.'Reddy trotted across the long bridge and up to the top of the hill, as Granny had told him to. Pretty soon Reddy heard another sound. It was a long, low rumble. Th...
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    10,57 €

  • Mother West Wind’s Children by Thornton Burgess, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy & Magic
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
                                                                                                                   MEADOW MOUSE SMELLS A RAT!Grandfather Frog told the story: 'Back then there was a great deal of trouble, for someone was stealing -- yes, stealing! Mr. Rabbit complained first. But no one really believed what Mr. Rabbit said, for he had a bad name for telling things wh...
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    11,37 €

  • Blacky the Crow by Thornton Burgess, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy & Magic
    Thornton W. Burgess / Thornton WBurgess
    Instead of flying straight to that old nest, he first flew over the tree so that he could look down into it. Right away he saw something that made him gasp and blink his eyes. It was quite large and white, and it looked -- it looked very much indeed like an egg! Do you wonder that Blacky gasped and blinked? You know Blacky has a weakness for eggs. The more he thought about it, ...
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    11,28 €

  • The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel
    Thornton W. Burgess
    Caught between certain death at the paws of Shadow the Weasel and the claws of Redtail the Hawk, Chatterer the Red Squirrel finds himself on the run from his home and his stores of nuts and seeds just as winter is coming on. But Chatterer’s unruly tongue gets him into all sorts of trouble with the animals who might have sheltered him from the cold. Can he learn to be a better f...
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    13,86 €


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