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The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer
Thornton W. Burgess
Book Overview:
The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer is another set of children’s stories by the conservationist, Thornton W. Burgess. More serious than some of Burgess' other children's books, much of this book chronicles the tense predator-prey relationship of a human hunter and Lightfoot the Deer during the autumn hunting season. Later, Lightfoot discovers a hunt of a different kind.
The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer is another set of children’s stories by the conservationist, Thornton W. Burgess. More serious than some of Burgess' other children's books, much of this book chronicles the tense predator-prey relationship of a human hunter and Lightfoot the Deer during the autumn hunting season. Later, Lightfoot discovers a hunt of a different kind.
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And Peter knew that this same fear was clutching at the hearts of Bob White, hiding in the brown stubble; of Mrs. Grouse, squatting in the thickest bramble-tangle in the Green Forest; of Uncle Billy Possum and Bobby Coon in their hollow trees; of Jerry Muskrat in the Smiling Pool; of Happy Jack Squirrel, hiding in the tree tops; of[pg 27] Lightfoot the Deer, lying in the closest thicket he could find. It was even clutching at the hearts of Granny and Reddy Fox and of great, big Buster Bear. It seemed to Peter that no one was so big or so small that this terrible Spirit of Fear had not searched him out.
Far in the distance sounded a sudden bang. Peter jumped and shivered. He knew that every one else who had heard that bang had jum. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
I love Burgess’ stories… but this one ripped on hunters too harshly. He paints all hunters as bloodthirsty and unconcerned with protecting nature and habitats.
It’s just the opposite though. Hunters are an important part of the food chain. We keep populations down when other predators are scarce. Wh
It was ok. BUT, as someone who lives near the wild... AND is used to people hunting...more
4.5 stars & 5/10 hearts. This is probably my second-favourite Burgess book. I just love Lightfoot. He seems much more real than the other animals. It certainly got my emotions high while he was being hunted, and I had to remind myself it was all anthropomorphized!
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I remember being so excited for library day when I was little. My school library had this and the others in hardback books. I remember having a hard time sitting in my chair, irritating my teacher with not being able to sit still until she finally announced it was time to go to the school library. W
It took us awhile to finish this book because life got in the way, but by the end of it my daughter had learned so much about nature and was truly invested in the story. It went from one chapter a night to as many as she puked get out of me by the end of it. We both loved it very much. She was over
Mostly I kind of liked it when Lightfoot got married. And almost all of the chapters were exciting.
Het is jachtseizoen, en een jager is vastbesloten Lightfoot te grazen te nemen. Met de hulp van Paddy Beaver en Sammy Jay kan Lightfoot een hele tijd ontsnappen aan de jager, maar als er dan honden komen die zijn spoor ruiken, kan hij geen kant meer op. De enige mogelijkheid is de rivier over te zwe
I loved this book when I was 8--had forgotten it was such an anti-hunting diatribe.
The Thornton Burgess series in general is quite an endearing series of children's books, which do a fine job of being readable by young readers and having interesting plots and introducing young people to a variety of animals in a semi-anthropomorphized way. This particular entry, "The Adventures of
Author's Dedication:
TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF OUR FOUR-FOOTED FRIENDS IN THE GREEN FOREST WITH THE HOPE THAT THIS LITTLE VOLUME MAY IN SOME DEGREE AID IN THE PROTECTION OF THE INNOCENT AND HELPLESS
Angry hunters with terrible guns roam the Green Forest so Lightfoot The Deer needs to be careful. Sammy