The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Thornton W. Burgess (1874-1965)
1. 00 – Preface
2. 01 – Jenny Wren Arrives
3. 02 – The Old Orchard Bully
4. 03 – Jenny Has a Good Word for Some Sparrows
5. 04 – Chippy, Sweetvoice, and Dotty
6. 05 – Peter Learns Something He Hadn’t Guessed
7. 06 – An Old Friend In A New Home
8. 07 – The Watchman of the Old Orchard
9. 08 – Old Clothes and Old Houses
10. 09 – Longbill and Teeter
11. 10 – Redwing and Yellow Wing
12. 11 – Drummers and Carpenters
13. 12 – Some Unlikely Relatives
14. 13 – More of the Blackbird Family
15. 14 – Bob White and Carol the Meadow Lark
16. 15 – A Swallow and One Who Isn’t
17. 16 – A Robber in the Old Orchard
18. 17 – More Robbers
19. 18 – Some Homes in the Green Forest
20. 19 – A Maker of Thunder and a Friend in Black
21. 20 – A Fisherman Robbed
22. 21 – A Fishing Party
23. 22 – Some Feathered Diggers
24. 23 – Some Big Mouths
25. 24 – The Warblers Arrive
26. 25 – Three Cousins Quite Unlike
27. 26 – Peter Gets a Lame Neck
28. 27 – A New Friend and an Old One
29. 28 – Peter Sees Rosebreast And Finds Redcoat
30. 29 – The Constant Singers
31. 30 – Jenny Wren’s Cousins
32. 31 – Voice of the Dusk
33. 32 – Peter Saves a Friend and Learns Something
34. 33 – A Royal Dresser and a Late Nester
35. 34 – Mourner the Dove and Cuckoo
36. 35 – A Butcher and a Hummer
37. 36 – A Stranger and a Dandy
38. 37 – Farewells and Welcomes
39. 38 – Honker and Dippy Arrive
40. 39 – Peter Discovers Two Old Friends
41. 40 – Some Merry Seed Eaters
42. 41 – More Friends Come With the Snow
43. 42 – Peter Learns Something about Spooky
44. 43 – Queer Feet and a Queerer Bill
45. 44 – More Folks in Red
46. 45 – Peter Sees Two Terrible Feathered Hunters
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Summary
The Burgess Bird Book for Children is a zoology book written in the form of a story featuring Peter Rabbit. Peter learns from his friend Jenny Wren all about the birds of North America, and we meet many of them in the Old Orchard, the Green Meadow, and the Green Forest.
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the reader is bad but the book is good!
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the reader is bad but the book is good!
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the reader is bad but the book is good!
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Best bird book ever. I love it.
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