The Burgess Animal Book for Children Author:Thornton W. Burgess Thornton W Burgess (1875 - 1965) was born in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He was known as a conservationist and writer of children's books. Burgess loved the beauty of nature so much that during a fifty-year span he wrote 170 books and 15000 stories centered on nature and animals. Peter Rabbit and Jerry Muskrat are two of his most memorable chara... more »cters. Burgess dedicated this book to the wildlife animals he so loved especially those which he felt were in danger of extinction. This collection of 40 animal stories tells the stories of foxes, bears, badgers, elk, rabbits and more.« less