The gentle, old-fashioned animal stories of Thornton W. Burgess,told with great warmth and charm, draw young readers into the timeless world of the creatures who live in the Green Forest and around the Smiling Pool.In this engaging episode, Bobby Raccoon suffers a series of mishaps. Following a bad dream, he bites his own tail, is given a dreadful fright, survives an encounter with Buster Bear, gets a terrible shaking and more, but, happily, is rescued by Peter Rabbit and eventually finds a new home.Reset in easy-to-read type and enhanced with six new illustrations adapted from originals by Harrison Cady, The Adventures of Bobby Raccoon will delight today's young readers while offering gentle lessons about nature and wildlife.
The Adventures of Bobby Raccoon, originally published in 1918, is one of over seventy books written by Thornton W.Burgess to introduce children to the creatures of the Green Forest and Green Meadow and to the wonders of nature.Burgess, who lived from 1874 to 1965, grew up in the village of Sandwich, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, where he made the acquaintance of his stories" characters in the woods and fields he roamed as a boy. His love of nature led to his career as a writer as well as his reputation as a respected naturalist and teading environmentalist of his time. The uniqueness of his work lay in the way he combined fantasy, the study of nature and lessons about life to capture the imaginations of his young readers. Today his legacy continues through the work of the Thornton W. Burgess Society of Sandwich, whose mission is "to inspire a reverence for wildlife and a concern for the environment."
Bobby Coon Has a Bad
Dream
Bobby Bites His Own Tail
Bobby"s Dreadful Fright .
Bowser Finds Some One at
Home
Bobby Coon Shows Fight
Something Is Wrong with
Bobby Coon
Bobby Has a Strange Journey
Farmer Brown"s Boy Plays
Doctor
Bobby Is Made Much of .
Bobby Longs for the Green
Forest
The Happiest Coon Ever
Bobby Tries the Wrong
House
Bobby Makes Another
Mistake
Bobby Finds Out His
Mistake
Once More Bobby Tries to
Sleep
Blacky the Crow Discovers
Bobby
The Surprise of Two Cousins
Buster Bear"s Short Temper
Bobby Coon Gets a Terrible
Shaking
Peter Rabbit Saves Bobby
Coon
Bobby Finds a Home at Last
Bobby Finds He Has a
Neighbor
Buster Bear Finds Bobby
Coon