Books by Thornton W Burgess

The creatures of the Green Forest get a big surprise when Paddy the Beaver decides to build a dam over the Laughing Brook and make a new home.

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Danny Meadow Mouse, a timid but quick vole, plays hide-and-seek with his foe Reddy Fox and has other adventures with the animals of the Green Meadows.

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The adventures of Peter Rabbit, Johnny Chuck, Reddy Fox, the Merry Little Breezes, and all their companions in the fields, the woods, and the streams.

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Old Billy Possum is dead! So says Reddy Fox, anyway, who walks along singing, "Ol' Bill Possum, it served him right, and he is no more, for he died ... More

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Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown, 1919.

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Heartwarming tales recount the adventures of Reddy Fox, Grandfather Frog, Jimmy Skunk, and other characters. Enduring lessons about ecology and ... More

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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 ... More

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A strange-looking animal with very long, sharp teeth comes from the North and makes new friends among the forest folk and meadow people.

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Bob White is a busy bird with many friends, including Farmer Brown's boy, who tries to protect Bob and his wife when a hunter arrives.

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Relates how Jimmy Skunk repays Peter Rabbit for a practical joke and what happens when he and Unc' Billy Possum go hunting for eggs in Farmer Brown's ... More

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The other animals are frightened when Buster Bear comes to live in the Green Forest, until he gets into trouble trying to steal blueberries from ... More

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When the Smiling Pool and Laughing Brook dry up one day, Jerry Muskrat and the other forest animals set out to find the cause.

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Chronicles the adventures of Grandfather Frog and his animal friends.

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Despite his grandmother's efforts to teach him to behave, Reddy Fox always seems to get into trouble.

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Old Man Coyote, a stranger to the Green Meadows, frightens the forest folk and becomes an opponent to Old Granny Fox.

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The adventures of a woodchuck and his friends Sammy Jay, Happy Jack Squirrel, Billy Possum, and other inhabitants of the forest surrounding Farmer ... More

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Peter Rabbit and the other woodland animals discover that they have misjudged Old Mr. Toad, who also learns some important lessons.

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Separated from her husband and driven from her home by hunters, Mrs. Quack finds refuge with the animals of the Green Forest.

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When a deep winter snow carpets the Green Forest and nearby meadow, Granny Fox and Reddy disagree on how best to find some food. A timeless fable by ... More

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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 ... More

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An unabridged republication of the 1921 classic in which Lightfoot encounters animal friends Peter Rabbit, Sammy Jay, Paddy the Beaver and others.

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This special set of seven delightful books of warmth and whimsy take young readers to the Green Forest to meet Johnny Chuck, Bobby Raccoon, and other ... More

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A pair of bear cubs share a series of adventures with the other inhabitants of the Green Forest.

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Join Billy Mink, Bobby Raccoon, and Jumper the Hare as they battle the Rats, a crew of robbers that takes over the Big Barn. Illustrations by ... More

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Blacky the clever crow shares adventures with other animals in the Green Meadows and by the Big River, as he considers stealing eggs from Hooty the ... More

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