The Burgess Bird Book for Children (Dover Children's Classics) by Thorton BurgessOriginally published: Boston: Little, Brown, 1919. Uses simple story narratives to introduce a variety of birds. Parents, teachers, and young readers all over the world have enthusiastically welcomed the Dover reprints of Thornton Burgess's classic nature books, including the perennial bestseller, The Adventures of Peter Cottontail. In the present volume, the author's goal of introducing children to the fascinating subject of bird life is brilliantly

This new collection contains 130 select plates from the octavo version

'what kind of bee is that

which leap off the pages in full color

A matchless handbook for decades

Since 1999

children's & YA editor

we are the beneficiaries of a vast army of insects

Whimsically illustrated bugs with big eyes crawl

-- "Shelf Awareness"

accessible

For more than twenty years he has been a staff member of the Nature Conservancy

This stunning gift book