Once upon a time...there was a little boy who roamed the woods and befriended the animals...
Peter Rabbit...
... Happy Jack Squirrel and Jimmy Skunk were among his best friends ...
He knew the importance of the woods and the animals, and kept their stories. Then one day, he passed them along to his son, and luckily for us, to the rest of the world.
Old Mother west Wind was the first collection of these stories published in 1910 and Mother West Wind's Neighbors followed three years later. Almost 100 years after, and over one hundred books later, Thornton Burgess' message still speaks to the power of nature and the imagination in every child.
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