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Mother West Wind Where Stories

Thornton W. Burgess

Book Overview: 

The continuing adventures of Peter Cottontail and his friends.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Mr. Squirrel's storehouses. In it were some nuts different from any he ever had seen befo'. 'Brer Squirrel won't mind if Ah taste just one,' said he, and did it. It tasted good; it tasted ve'y good indeed. Brer Miser began to wish he had some nuts like those. When he got home he couldn't think of anything but how good those nuts tasted. He knew that [Pg 29]all he had to do was to watch until Brer Squirrel was away and then go he'p hisself. He knew that was just what any of his neighbors would do in his place. But Brer Miser couldn't make it seem just right any way he looked at it. He was too honest, was Brer Miser, to do anything like that.

"He was sitting staring at his treasures but thinking about those nuts when an idea popped into his head, an idea that made him smile until Ah reckons he most split his cheeks. 'Ah knows what Ah'll do,' said he. 'Ah'll just he'p mahself to some of those nuts and Ah'll leave something of mine in place of them. That's what Ah'll. . . Read More

Community Reviews

I liked how cute the stories were. I liked how Mother Nature and Peter Rabbit are in each story but never tell the stories themselves. -age 8

I'd picked up 3 volumes of the Burgess collection of West Wind stories. This is the third I've read and very happy there are no more after this continuously tedious lot.

Though this volume has a little more in each story, these are still all the same story. Over and over and over again! You'd figure

Another time-travel back to my boyhood - what wonderful stories! I gave my own child an almost unlimited book budget and all sorts of books - Jane Austen, Robin Hood, Little House on the Prairies, Tolkien, C. S. Lewis - how is it I neglected the Thornton W. Burgess stories so dear to me in the long-

My 7 (now 8) 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' an