Five minute bedtime tales
Subtitle: from Old Mother West Wind's library
By: Thornton Burgess ; illustrated by Harrison Cady
Contributors: Cady, Harrison, 1877-1970 ill
Publisher: Dover Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Mineola, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780486471112
Subjects: Animals; Short stories; Children's stories, American; Fiction
Description: A selection of seventeen previously-published animal stories, with color versions of the original illustrations.
Notes: Originally published in Mother West Wind "why" stories, Mother West Wind "how" stories, Mother West Wind "when" stories, and Mother West Wind "where" stories: Boston : Little, Brown, 1916-1918.
Table of contents: title: Why Jimmy Skunk never hurries; title: Why Sammy Jay has a fine coat; title: Why Buster Bear appears to have no tail; title: Why Spotty the Turtle carries his house with him; title: Why Paddy the Beaver has a broad tail; title: How Howler the Wolf got his name; title: How Lightfoot the Deer learned to jump; title: How the eyes of old Mr. Owl became fixed; title: How old Mr. Heron learned patience; title: When Mr. Bluebird won his beautiful coat; title: When Mr. Kingfisher took to the ground; title: When Bob White won his name; title: When old Mr. Hare became a turncoat; title: When Peter Rabbit first met Bluffer the Adder; title: Where Grandfather Frog got his big mouth; title: Where old Mrs. 'Gator made the first incubator; title: Where Mr. Quack got his webbed feet.