Burgess Big Book of Green Meadow Stories | Happy Jack | Mrs. Peter Rabbit | Bowser the Hound | Old Granny Fox | by Thornton Burgess 1932

A 1932 compendium of Thornton Burgess tales with gorgeous illustrations by Harrison Cady, this volume includes four of their most endearing children's stories including: Happy JackMrs. Peter RabbitBowser the HoundOld Granny FoxABOUT THE AUTHOR (Courtesy of Wikipedia)Thornton Waldo Burgess (1874-1965) was an American conservationist and author of children's stories. He was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man, after his newspaper column Bedtime Stories. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for the daily newspaper column. Burgess used his outdoor observations of nature as plots for his stories. In Burgess' first book, Old Mother West Wind (1910), the reader meets many of the characters found in later books and stories. The characters in the Old Mother West Wind series include Peter Rabbit (known briefly as Peter Cottontail), Jimmy Skunk, Sammy Jay, Bobby Raccoon, Little Joe Otter, Grandfather Frog, Billy Mink, Jerry Muskrat, Spotty the Turtle,