The gentle, old-fashioned animal stories of Thornton W. Burgess,told with great warmth and charm, draw young readers into the timeless world of the creatures who live in the Green Forest and around the Smiling Pool.In this engaging episode, Bobby Raccoon suffers a series of mishaps. Following a bad dream, he bites his own tail, is given a dreadful fright, survives an encounter with Buster Bear, gets a terrible shaking and more, but, happily, is rescued by Peter Rabbit and eventually finds a new home.Reset in easy-to-read type and enhanced with six new illustrations adapted from originals by Harrison Cady, The Adventures of Bobby Raccoon will delight today's young readers while offering gentle lessons about nature and wildlife.

The Adventures of Bobby Raccoon, originally published in 1918, is one of over seventy books written by Thornton W.Burgess to introduce children to the creatures of the Green Forest and Green Meadow and to the wonders of nature.Burgess, who lived from 1874 to 1965, grew up in the village of Sandwich, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, where he made the acquaintance of his stories" characters in the woods and fields he roamed as a boy. His love of nature led to his career as a writer as well as his reputation as a respected naturalist and teading environmentalist of his time. The uniqueness of his work lay in the way he combined fantasy, the study of nature and lessons about life to capture the imaginations of his young readers. Today his legacy continues through the work of the Thornton W. Burgess Society of Sandwich, whose mission is "to inspire a reverence for wildlife and a concern for the environment."

Bobby Coon Has a Bad

Dream

Bobby Bites His Own Tail

Bobby"s Dreadful Fright .

Bowser Finds Some One at

Home

Bobby Coon Shows Fight

Something Is Wrong with

Bobby Coon

Bobby Has a Strange Journey

Farmer Brown"s Boy Plays

Doctor

Bobby Is Made Much of .

Bobby Longs for the Green

Forest

The Happiest Coon Ever

Bobby Tries the Wrong

House

Bobby Makes Another

Mistake

Bobby Finds Out His

Mistake

Once More Bobby Tries to

Sleep

Blacky the Crow Discovers

Bobby

The Surprise of Two Cousins

Buster Bear"s Short Temper

Bobby Coon Gets a Terrible

Shaking

Peter Rabbit Saves Bobby

Coon

Bobby Finds a Home at Last

Bobby Finds He Has a

Neighbor

Buster Bear Finds Bobby

Coon