Animals & Nature
Mother West Wind Stories
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 Woodpec…
The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat
Jerry Muskrat and his friends love their homes in the Smiling Pool and Laughing Brook. So when the Smiling Pool suddenly stops smiling, and …
Happy Jack
Who would have thought dropping a nut would cause so much trouble? No sooner does Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel go scampering down the tree t…
Mother West Wind's Animal Friends
This is the 6th compilation of childrens bedtime stories by conservationist and newspaper columnist author Thornton Waldo Burgess. Burgess u…
The Adventures of Grandfather Frog
Longlegs the Blue Heron felt decidedly out of sorts. It was a beautiful morning, too beautiful for any one to be feeling that way. Indeed, i…
Mother West Wind Stories
Thornton Burgess gives us a collection of stories about the animals, explaining 'when' they got their peculiar traits. As usual the stories…
Little Fuzzy
Jack Holloway, a prospector on the planet Zarathustra discovers small furry creatures. These creatures are obviously intelligent, but are th…
The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack
"Hello, Jerry Muskrat! We'd forgotten all about you," said Mrs. Quack. "What was that you said?" Jerry good-naturedly re…
Little Joe Otter
Little Joe Otter, Mrs. Otter, and the two Otter children go on a traveling adventure where the children learn about trappers, bobcats, and t…
The Adventures of Prickly Porky
A stranger from the North Woods has just arrived in the Green Forest causing a great stir among the woodland creatures who live there. They …
The Wind in the Willows
The classic story of how Rat, Mole, and the other river-bankers saved Toad from his excesses. This book has it all: excitement, sentiment, d…
The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer
The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer is another set of children’s stories by the conservationist, Thornton W. Burgess. More serious than som…
Old Granny Fox
Old Granny Fox and grandson Reddy Fox must use all their cunning to hunt up enough food to survive the long winter. Food in the Green Meadow…
Billy Mink
“The stranger and the unknown must be always looked on with distrust.” -- Billy MinkThe Green Forest and the Smiling Pool are full of adven…
Among the Forest People
Among the Forest People invites young listeners into the enchanting world of forest animals, as seen through the eyes of Clara Dillingham Pi…
Alcatraz
Alcatraz tells the captivating tale of a wild horse, renowned for its untamable spirit, and the determined man who dares to challenge its re…
Happy Jack
The adventures and perils of Happy Jack the Squirrel in the Green Forest, co-starring Happy Jack's cousins Chatterer the Red Squirrel and St…
Nomads of the North
An unlikely pair were Neewa, the black bear cub who had been orphaned at a young age, and Miki, part Mackenzie hound, part Airedale and Spit…
Rescue Dog of the High Pass
Jim Kjelgaard has long wanted to tell the story of the gallant dogs who have gone out with the monks of St. Bernard Hospice to rescue travel…
Tales of the Fish Patrol
Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast …