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Mother West Wind How Stories
Thornton W. Burgess
Book Overview:
Peter Rabbit has many questions. How did Howler the Wolf get his name? How did Lightfoot the Deer learn to jump? How did Drummer the Woodpecker come by his red cap? When Peter asks Grandfather Frog, Grandfather Frog tells him a story of long ago. This book is a collection of those stories told by Grandfather Frog and many others.
Peter Rabbit has many questions. How did Howler the Wolf get his name? How did Lightfoot the Deer learn to jump? How did Drummer the Woodpecker come by his red cap? When Peter asks Grandfather Frog, Grandfather Frog tells him a story of long ago. This book is a collection of those stories told by Grandfather Frog and many others.
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"Old Mother Nature met him hopping along and making hard work of it[Pg 36] because, of course, it was so new. She looked at him sharply. 'What are you doing here?' she demanded. 'Aren't you contented with the water where you were born?'
"Mr. Toad bowed very low. 'Yes'm,' said he very humbly. 'I'll go right back there if you say so. I thought there must be some things worth finding out on the land, and that I might be of some use in the Great World.'
"His answer pleased Old Mother Nature. She was worried. She had planted all kinds of things on the land, and they were springing up everywhere, but she had discovere. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
After reading the collection in 'Mother West Wind "Where" Stories', I figured the next collection read couldn't continue the same over used template in the last set. i was wrong. This book is much the same. Basically the same story over and over. Apparently Burgess had no ability to flesh out plots
Thornton W. Burgess' little nature stories are as delightful in adulthood as in childhood, which is, as C. S. Lewis said, proof of a good children's book.
I hadn't visited The Green Meadows, the Green Forest, the Briar Patch, or the Smiling Pool in decades, but what fun to return and find Peter Rabbi
I grew up listening to my mother read to me Mother West Wind Why stories. I didn't realize there were more of these stories until I started to look up the book to read to my own children. I started reading this series to them many, many years ago. We only read them when we are camping (1 story each
My 7 yr old gave these books a 5. I agree. "His books are awesome' she says.I liked the way morals were told in an entertaining way. I bet my daughter didn't feel she was being moralized at because she wanted to hear the whole book. I've tried others that had a distinct 'moral' or 'value' and she ha