Description
The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W Burgess is a classic nature story collection for children that contains a number of charming fictitious tales of animals as diverse as the wren and the mole. Burgess's vivid imagination and genuine love of the creatures he depicts is apparent in all the stories found on these pages. This volume is a must addition for any collection of nature books for children.
Author: Thornton W. Burgess
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 05/11/2014
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.46d
ISBN13: 9781499513936
ISBN10: 1499513933
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | General
- Nature | Animals | Mammals
Author: Thornton W. Burgess
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 05/11/2014
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.46d
ISBN13: 9781499513936
ISBN10: 1499513933
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | General
- Nature | Animals | Mammals
About the Author
Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 - June 5, 1965) was a conservationist and author of children's stories. Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his newspaper column, "Bedtime Stories". He was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man. By the time he retired, he had written over 170 books and 15,000 stories for the daily newspaper column.
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