90 BEST-LOVED CHILDREN'S ANIMAL STORIES AND FAIRY TALES (Worldwide Bestseller Featuring Peter Rabbit):
THE COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED THORTON BURGESS ANIMAL BOOKS COLLECTION FOR CHILDREN
(Best Loved Children's Stories of All Time)
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PREFACE
THE BURGESS ANIMAL BOOK FOR CHILDREN
CHAPTER I
JENNY WREN GIVES PETER RABBIT AN IDEA
CHAPTER II
PETER AND JUMPER GO TO SCHOOL
CHAPTER III
MORE OF PETER'S LONG-LEGGED COUSINS
CHAPTER IV
CHATTERER AND HAPPY JACK JOIN
CHAPTER V
THE SQUIRRELS OF THE TREES
CHAPTER VI
STRIPED CHIPMUNK AND HIS COUSINS
CHAPTER VII
JOHNNY CHUCK JOINS THE CLASS
CHAPTER VIII
WHISTLER AND YAP YAP
CHAPTER IX
TWO QUEER LITTLE HAYMAKERS
CHAPTER X
PRICKLY PORKY AND GRUBBY GOPHER
CHAPTER XI
A FELLOW WITH A THOUSAND SPEARS
CHAPTER XII
A LUMBERMAN AND ENGINEER
CHAPTER XIII
A WORKER AND A ROBBER
CHAPTER XIV
A TRADER AND A HANDSOME FELLOW
CHAPTER XV
TWO UNLIKE LITTLE COUSINS
CHAPTER XVI
DANNY'S NORTHERN COUSINS AND NIMBLEHEELS
CHAPTER XVII
THREE LITTLE REDCOATS AND SOME OTHERS
CHAPTER XVIII
MICE WITH POCKETS, AND OTHERS
CHAPTER XIX
TEENY WEENY AND HIS COUSIN
CHAPTER XX
FOUR BUSY LITTLE MINERS
CHAPTER XXI
FLITTER THE BAT AND HIS FAMILY
CHAPTER XXII
AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY
CHAPTER XXIII
DIGGER AND HIS COUSIN GLUTTON
CHAPTER XXIV
SHADOW AND HIS FAMILY
CHAPTER XXV
TWO FAMOUS SWIMMERS
CHAPTER XXVI
SPITE THE MARTEN AND PEKAN THE FISHER
CHAPTER XXVII
REDDY FOX JOINS THE SCHOOL
CHAPTER XXVIII
OLD MAN COYOTE AND HOWLER THE WOLF
CHAPTER XXIX
YOWLER AND HIS COUSIN TUFTY
CHAPTER XXX
SOME BIG AND LITTLE CAT COUSINS
CHAPTER XXXI
BOBBY COON ARRIVES
CHAPTER XXXII
BUSTER BEAR NEARLY BREAKS UP SCHOOL
CHAPTER XXXIII
BUSTER BEAR'S BIG COUSINS
CHAPTER XXXIV
UNC' BILLY AND OLD MRS. POSSUM
CHAPTER XXXV
LIGHTFOOT, BLACKTAIL AND FORKHORN
CHAPTER XXXVI
BUGLER, FLATHORNS AND WANDERHOOF
CHAPTER XXXVII
THUNDERFOOT, FLEETFOOT AND LONGCOAT
CHAPTER XXXVIII
TWO WONDERFUL MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS
CHAPTER XXXIX
PIGGY AND HARDSHELL
CHAPTER XL
THE MAMMALS OF THE SEA
THE BURGESS BIRD BOOK FOR CHILDREN
PREFACE
CHAPTER I
JENNY WREN ARRIVES.
CHAPTER II
THE OLD ORCHARD BULLY.
CHAPTER III
JENNY HAS A GOOD WORD FOR SOME SPARROWS.
CHAPTER IV
CHIPPY, SWEETVOICE, AND DOTTY.
CHAPTER V
PETER LEARNS SOMETHING HE HADN'T GUESSED.
CHAPTER VI
AN OLD FRIEND IN A NEW HOME.
CHAPTER VII
THE WATCHMAN OF THE OLD ORCHARD.
CHAPTER VIII
OLD CLOTHES AND OLD HOUSES.
CHAPTER IX
LONGBILL AND TEETER.
CHAPTER X
REDWING AND YELLOW WING.
CHAPTER XI
DRUMMERS AND CARPENTERS.
CHAPTER XII
SOME UNLIKELY RELATIVES.
CHAPTER XIII
MORE OF THE BLACKBIRD FAMILY.
CHAPTER XIV
BOB WHITE AND CAROL THE MEADOW LARK.
CHAPTER XV
A SWALLOW AND ONE WHO ISN'T.
CHAPTER XVI
A ROBBER IN THE OLD ORCHARD.
CHAPTER XVII
MORE ROBBERS.
CHAPTER XVIII
SOME HOMES IN THE GREEN FOREST.
CHAPTER XIX
A MAKER OF THUNDER AND A FRIEND IN BLACK.
CHAPTER XX
A FISHERMAN ROBBED.
CHAPTER XXI
A FISHING PARTY.
CHAPTER XXII
SOME FEATHERED DIGGERS.
CHAPTER XXIII
SOME BIG MOUTHS.
CHAPTER XXIV
THE WARBLERS ARRIVE.
CHAPTER XXV
THREE COUSINS QUITE UNLIKE.
CHAPTER XXVI
PETER GETS A LAME NECK.
CHAPTER XXVII
A NEW FRIEND AND AN OLD ONE.
CHAPTER XXVIII
PETER SEES ROSEBREAST AND FINDS REDCOAT.
CHAPTER XXIX
THE CONSTANT SINGERS.
CHAPTER XXX
JENNY WREN'S COUSINS.
CHAPTER XXXI
VOICES OF THE DUSK.
CHAPTER XXXII
PETER SAVES A FRIEND AND LEARNS SOMETHING.
CHAPTER XXXIII
A ROYAL DRESSER AND A LATE NESTER.
CHAPTER, XXXIV
MOURNER THE DOVE AND CUCKOO.
CHAPTER XXXV
A BUTCHER AND A HUMMER.
CHAPTER XXXVI
A STRANGER AND A DANDY.
CHAPTER XXXVII
FAREWELLS AND WELCOMES.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
HONKER AND DIPPY ARRIVE.
CHAPTER XXXIX
PETER DISCOVERS TWO OLD FRIENDS.
CHAPTER XL
SOME MERRY SEED-EATERS.
CHAPTER XLI
MORE FRIENDS COME WITH THE SNOW.
CHAPTER XLII
PETER LEARNS SOMETHING ABOUT SPOOKY.
CHAPTER XLIII
QUEER FEET AND A QUEERER BILL.
CHAPTER XLIV
MORE FOLKS IN RED.
CHAPTER XLV
PETER SEES TWO TERRIBLE FEATHERED HUNTERS.
Excerpt:
As sure as you're alive now, Peter Rabbit, some day I will catch you," snarled Reddy Fox, as he poked his black nose in the hole between the roots of the Big Hickory-tree which grows close to the Smiling Pool. "It is lucky for you that you were not one jump farther away from this hole.
Peter, safe inside that hole, didn't have a word to say ...
