Welcome!
Hello, friends! Welcome to Burgess Books, a place where animals talk, play, and teach us about the world around us. Here you can meet Billy Mink, Reddy Fox, Peter Cottontail, and many more of Thornton W. Burgess’s woodland friends.
You’ll find book lessons, coloring pages, fun facts, and activities that help us learn about both the animals in the books and the real animals in nature.
So come explore the Green Forest, the Smiling Pool, and the Laughing Brook — adventure is waiting!
WHO WAS THORNTON W. BURGESS?
Thornton Waldo Burgess (1874-1965) was a conservationist and author, who wrote over 100 books and thousands of newspaper columns over his lifetime. As a boy, he spent hours outside in nature exploring the woods and meadows near his home. As a young father and widower, Burgess wrote letters to his son who was spending time staying with relatives. In these letters he included the bedtime stories that became the inspiration for his fantastic and lovable woodland characters that lived within the Green Meadow, Green Forest, and Smiling Pool. These animal books are filled with adventure, humor and life lessons that have been enjoyed for generations.
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