Mother West Wind's Animal Friends by Thornton W. Burgess, Author of "Old Mother West Wind," and "Mother West Wind's Children", Illustrated by George Kerr. - 1920. - Illustrated Edition. Thornton Waldo Burgess was a conservationist and author of children's stories. Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his newspaper column, "Bedtime Stories". He was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for the daily newspaper column. His outdoor observations in nature were used as plots for his stories. In his first book, Old Mother West Wind, published in 1910, the reader meets many of the characters found in later books and stories.
- ISBN10 0341762210
- ISBN13 9780341762218
- Publish Date 7 October 2018 (first published 14 April 2009)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Imprint Franklin Classics
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 256
- Language English