Mother West Wind How Stories (Illustrated)

by Thornton W. Burgess

Overview

Mother West Wind "How" Stories relates "how" the little creatures of the Wide Green Meadows came to look and behave as they do. For example, Peter Rabbit hears the story of how old Mr. Squirrel became thrifty; how it happens Johnny Chuck sleeps all winter; how Drummer the Woodpecker came by his red cap and many other fascinating tales of the long-ago days of his great-great-ever-so-great-grandfather. These charming tales of how Old Mother Nature put the finishing touches on her children contain a wealth of natural history, and they are beloved favorites that can never be told too often.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538029756
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	07/12/2017
Pages:	108
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.26(d)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 – June 5, 1965) was a conservationist and author of children's stories. Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his newspaper column, "Bedtime Stories". He was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for the daily newspaper column.

Born in Sandwich, Massachusetts, Burgess was the son of Caroline F. Haywood and Thornton W. Burgess Sr., a direct descendant of Thomas Burgess, one of the first Sandwich settlers in 1637. Thornton W. Burgess, Sr., died the same year his son was born, and the young Thornton Burgess was brought up by his mother in Sandwich. They both lived in humble circumstances with relatives or paying rent. As a youth, he worked year round in order to earn money. Some of his jobs included tending cows, picking trailing arbutus or berries, shipping water lilies from local ponds, selling candy and trapping muskrats. William C. Chipman, one of his employers, lived on Discovery Hill Road, a wildlife habitat of woodland and wetland. This habitat became the setting of many stories in which Burgess refers to Smiling Pool and the Old Briar Patch.