Even in the peaceful, sun-splashed world of the Green Forest, the Laughing Brook and the Smiling Pool, trouble sometimes makes an appearance and disturbs the lives of the animals living there.And so it is in this charming story about Jerry Muskrat and his friends Little Joe Otter, Spotty the Turtle, Grandfather Frog and Billy Mink. First, Farmer Brown's boy has set nasty traps all around the Smiling Pool and that spells trouble for Jerry and the other creatures who live in and around the Pool. Wise old Grandfather Frog must think long and hard to come up with a solution for that problem. Then, suddenly, the water in the Laughing Brook stops flowing and before long, the Smiling Pool drops to alarming levels. Something must be done, but what?Children will love finding out as they read or listen to this classic Thornton W. Burgess fable, which combines the fun of a good story with important lessons about kindness, stick-to-itiveness,cooperation and other virtues.

The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat was first published in 1914.The story of Jerry and his friends is one of a series of twenty Bedtime Story-Books originally written by children"s author and naturalist Thornton W. Burgess for a syndicated newspaper column of the same title which ran from 1912 until 1960.Burgess was born in 1874 in the town of Sandwich, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, where he discovered within himself a love of nature and its creatures during his boyhood. After moving away many years later, the places he had explored as a boy appeared in the wonderful animal stories he wrote for children. His first book, Old Mother West Wind, written in 1910, was originally a collection of stories for his own son. In all, Burgess wrote 15,000 newspaper stories, seventy fulllength books and numerdus booklets and articles before his death in 1965. He was also recognized during his lifetime as a leader in early preservation efforts and as an important influence in creating an awareness of the need to care for the environment.

Jerry Muskrat Has a

Fright

The Convention at the

Big Rock

The Oracle of the

Smiling Pool

Grandfather Frog"s

Plan

A Busy Day at the

Smiling Pool

Farmer Brown"s Boy

Is Puzzled

Jerry Muskrat Makes a

Discovery

Grandfather Frog

Watches His Toes

The Laughing

Brook Stops

Laughing

Why the World

Seemed Upside Down

to Jerry Muskrat

Five Heads Together

A Hunt for Trouble

O1" Mistah Buzzard

Sees Something

Spotty the Turtle

Keeps Right on Going

What Spotty the

Turtle Found

The Pond in the

Green Forest

Who Had Made the

Strange Pond?

Jerry Muskrat"s Big

Cousin

Jerry Muskrat Has a

Busy Day

Jerry Has a Dreadful

Disappointment

Jerry Muskrat Keeps

Watch

Jerry Loses His Fear

Paddy the Beaver

Does a Kind Deed

A Merry Home-going

Paddy the Beaver

Decides to Stay