Buster Bear's Twins (Illustrated)

by Thornton W. Burgess, Steve G. Gabany, Harrison Cady (Illustrator)

Overview

Buster Bear's Twins is the last volume in the Green Meadow Series. His next book, Billy Mink, kicks off the Smiling Pool Series. The Twins starts with our old friend Peter Rabbit trying to figure out Buster and Mrs. Bear's secret. Was he surprised to learn they had a new family, and not just one bear cub but two — twins — Boxer, a boy, and Woof-Woof, a girl. Well, as you can imagine, two rambunctious bear cubs manage to get into all kinds of trouble, including scaring Chatterer the Red Squirrel and getting even with Peter Rabbit for scaring them shortly after they first emerged out of their den.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666218664
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	12/10/2020
Pages:	154
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 – June 5, 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". He was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for the daily newspaper column.

Born in Sandwich, Massachusetts, Burgess was the son of Caroline F. Haywood and Thornton W. Burgess Sr., a direct descendant of Thomas Burgess, one of the first Sandwich settlers in 1637. Thornton W. Burgess, Sr., died the same year his son was born, and the young Thornton Burgess was brought up by his mother in Sandwich. They both lived in humble circumstances with relatives or paying rent. As a youth, he worked year round in order to earn money. Some of his jobs included tending cows, picking trailing arbutus or berries, shipping water lilies from local ponds, selling candy and trapping muskrats. William C. Chipman, one of his employers, lived on Discovery Hill Road, a wildlife habitat of woodland and wetland. This habitat became the setting of many stories in which Burgess refers to Smiling Pool and the Old Briar Patch.