Thornton Waldo Burgess, naturalist and conservationist,
loved the beauty of nature and its living creature so much that he wrote about
them for 50 years. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books
and 15,000 stories for daily columns in newspapers.
Many of his outdoor observations in nature were used as
plots for his stories. In his first book, Old Mother West Wind, published in
1910, the reader meets many of the characters found in later books and stories.
These characters include Peter Rabbit, Jimmy Skunk, Sammy Jay, Bobby Raccoon,
Joe Otter, Grandfather Frog, Billy Mink, Jerry Muskrat, Spotty the Turtle and
of course, Old Mother West Wind and her Merry Little Breezes.
Presented live in voice.
