Summary: Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher. In this zoology book for children, Thornton W. Burgess describes the mammals of North America in the form of an entertaining story, including plenty of detail but omitting long scientific names. There is an emphasis on conservation. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden for Librivox)
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Jenny Wren Gives Peter Rabbit an Idea
More of Peter’s Long-Legged Cousins
Striped Chipmunk and his Cousins
Prickly Porky and Grubby Gopher
A Fellow with a Thousand Spears
A Trader and a Handsome Fellow
Danny’s Northern Cousins and Nimbleheels
Three Little Redcoats and Some Others
Flitter the Bat and his Family
Spite the Marten and Pekan the Fisher
Old Man Coyote and Howler the Wolf
Some Big and Little Cat Cousins
Buster Bear Nearly Breaks Up School
Unc’ Billy and Old Mrs. Possum
Lightfoot, Blacktail and Forkhorn
Bugler, Flathorns and Wanderhoof
Thunderfoot, Fleetfoot and Longcoat
Two Wonderful Mountain Climbers
Piggy and Hardshell
The Mammals of the Sea