11 Children's Books by Thornton Burgess by Thornton Burgess

This collection includes  Mother West Wind "Why" Stories, Mother West Wind "Where" Stories, Mother West Wind's Children, The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad, The Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The Adventures of Prickly Porky, the Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum, Lightfoot the Deer, and Bowser the Hound.  According to Wikipedia: "Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 – June 5, 1965) was a conservationist and author of children's stories. Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his newspaper column, "Bedtime Stories". He was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for the daily newspaper column."