The Burgess Animal Book for Children

Informationen zum Autor Thornton Waldo Burgess (1874 - 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. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for the daily newspaper column. Klappentext To answer Peter Rabbit's questions about his relatives! Old Mother Nature holds a school for the animals every day at sun-up for a month. Encouraging the animals to notice the differences between them and to offer their observations of animal behavior! Old Mother Nature helps them all gain a greater understanding of the mammals of North America. Starting with the animals close to home! the school moves in ever-widening circles to encompass the animals of the far west and the extreme north! as well. A fine introduction to mammals for students in the primary grades.

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• Autori: Thornton Burgess, Thornton W. Burgess
• Con la collaborazione di: Louis Agassiz Fuertes (Illustrazione)
• Editore: External catalogues UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 9 a 12 anni
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 14.01.2010
• EAN: 9781599151717
• ISBN: 978-1-59915-171-7
• Categoria: Libri per bambini e per ragazzi > Saggi / saggi illustrati > Animali, piante, natura, ambiente