Whitefoot the Wood Mouse (Illustrated)

by Thornton W. Burgess, Harrison Cady (Illustrator)

Overview

Whitefoot the Wood Mouse has found a perfect den for winter, he thinks, in the corner of Farmer Brown's sugar house. But, is it perfect, or is it a trap? Whitefoot is also lonely. He has been alone all his life, and he would really like to meet a girl Wood Mouse. Whitefoot would like to get married and maybe even have babies. But, even though he has looked high and low, here and there, he has not been able to find a girl Wood Mouse. Will Whitefoot ever get married, or will he have to live by himself for the rest of his life?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538082683
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	06/14/2018
Series:	Classic Books for Children , #37
Pages:	114
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.27(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.

This book is a transcription of the 1922 edition of the print version of the book. No changes have been made to either the illustrations or the text. However, you may find errors, which, while regrettable, seem unavoidable. Nonetheless, we apologize.

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.

Graduating from Sandwich High School in 1891, Burgess briefly attended a business college in Boston from 1892 to 1893, living in Somerville, Massachusetts, at that time. But he disliked studying business and wanted to write. He moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he took a job as an editorial assistant at the Phelps Publishing Company. His first stories were written under the pen name W. B. Thornton.