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The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat
Beloved children's classic concerns the problems faced by Jerry Muskrat and the other creatures of the Green Forest when the water stops flowing in the Laughing Brook and the Smiling Pool. Children will love finding out how Jerry, Little Joe Otter, Billy Mink, and others team up to solve the dilemma. 6 new illustrations.
Paperback, 96 pages
Published
November 8th 1993
by Dover Publications
(first published 1914)
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This is a phrase that brings a smile to my face as often as I hear it. As a young child, I would lose myself for hours in the simple world of the wood and pond inhabited by Little Joe Otter, Buster Bear, Grandfather Frog, and terrorized by Farmer Brown's Boy. I can remember the very shelf, even the exact spot in the little library in Felton, CA where these books were kept. I would return practically every week with a new armload to last me until our next trip to the library. Of...more
This is a phrase that brings a smile to my face as often as I hear it. As a young child, I would lose myself for hours in the simple world of the wood and pond inhabited by Little Joe Otter, Buster Bear, Grandfather Frog, and terrorized by Farmer Brown's Boy. I can remember the very shelf, even the exact spot in the little library in Felton, CA where these books were kept. I would return practically every week with a new armload to last me until our next trip to the library. Of...more
I often read children's books as light reading, without having to really think about what the universe is telling us etc. This book was charming in the essence that it is straightforward in its story. It starts with an intro to Jerry Muskrat and how he is caught in the farmer's boy's trap even though he is warned by his friends and his mom. In the next chapter his mom organizes a meeting to put the problem of the traps to the animals in the forest and so forth. The stories after that concentrate...more
The World of the Green Forest and Meadows was one of my absolute favourites when I was young. I've spent much time collecting as many Thornton Burgess books as I can find for my children now. These are the most charming, unassuming books you could ever dream of reading. Thornton Burgess teaches us about all the little forest and meadow folk's living habits while creating a beautiful world that children and adults alike can enjoy.
I actually read the 1943 version, found at a cottage. Lots of fun, and makes today's kids' books seem silly.
May 23, 2013
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Jan 15, 2013
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Thornton W. Burgess (1874-1965), American author, naturalist and conservationist, wrote popular children's stories including the Old Mother West Wind (1910) series. He would go on to write more than 100 books and thousands of short-stories during his lifetime.
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