Have you read any of the books by Thornton Burgess? They are well-loved in our home. Inspired by the Burgess Bird Book Companion, I decided to make my own reading guide companion for The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Burgess. My son loves the Thornton Burgess books so much. He was sad that there was not such a great website to go along with each one, so here is my version for the Animal Book.
Where to get The Burgess Animal Book for Children:
You can listen to this book for free on librivox.org, or you can download a free version for kindle here:The Burgess Animal Book for Children
. Also, there is an online version that you can read at the Baldwin Project. I found it available at our library. We loved it so much though, that I bought our own copy.
Burgess Animal Book For Children Learning Resources:
Animal Pictures and Coloring Pages:
Each Chapter below has links to the following:
- Librivox audio of the chapter
- Exploring Nature and eNature sites with more information about the animals covered in the chapter
- Life-like coloring pages for each of the animals covered in the chapter
- Pages from the Handbook of Nature Study -The Handbook Of Nature Study
, by Anna Botsford Comstock, an amazing book to help in nature studies. I have found it available as a free download. It is a huge book- over 900 pages, but it has so much amazing information in it. You might end up purchasing a hard copy like I did.
, by Anna Botsford Comstock, an amazing book to help in nature studies. I have found it available as a 
Chapter 14 Audio
Cotton Rat: eNature
Woodrat: eNature
Kangaroo Rat: eNature, Exploring Nature
Generic Rat Coloring Page
Chapter 15: Two Unlike Little Cousins
Animals Covered: Wood or Deer Mouse, and Danny Meadow Mouse (Field Mouse)
Chapter 16: Danny’s Northern Cousins and Nimbleheels
Rock Mouse and Beach Mouse
Animals Covered: The Silky and Spiny Pocket Mice, Grasshopper Mouse,
Harvest Mouse and House Mouse
Pocket Mouse: eNature
Grasshopper Mouse: eNature
Harvest Mouse: eNature
House Mouse: eNature
Animals Covered: The Common or Long-tailed Shrew or Shrew Mouse, Short-tailed Shrew or Mole Shrew and Marsh or Water Shrew
Animals Covered: The Common Mole, Brewer’s or Hairy-tailed Mole, Oregon Mole, and Star-nosed Mole
Animals covered: The Red Bat, Little Brown or Cave Bat, Big Brown or House Bat, Silvery Bat, Hoary Bat and Big-eared Bat
Chapter 22: An Independent Family
Animals covered: The Common Skunk, Hog-Nosed or Badger Skunk and Little Spotted Skunk
Skunk: eNature, Exploring Nature
Striped and Spotted Skunk coloring page
Animals Covered: The Badger and Wolverine or Carcajou
Chapter 24: Shadow and His Family
Chapter 25: Two Famous Swimmers
Chapter 26: Spite the Marten and Pekan the Fisher
Animals Covered: The Pine Marten or American Sable and the Fisher or Pennant Marten
Chapter 27: Reddy Fox Joins the School
Animals Covered: The Red, Black and Silver Foxes, Gray Fox, Kit Fox, or Swift, Desert Fox, Arctic and Blue Foxes
Red Fox: eNature, Exploring Nature
Gray Fox: eNature, Exploring Nature
Kit Fox: eNature, Exploring Nature
Arctic Fox: eNature, Exploring Nature
Chapter 28: Old Man Coyote and Howler the Wolf
Chapter 29: Yowler and His Cousin Tufty
Animals Covered: The Bay Lynx or Bob Cat and the Canada Lynx or Lucivee
Chapter 31: Bobby Coon Arrives
Animals Covered: The Raccoon and the Civet or Ring-tailed Cat, also called Coon Cat and Bassaris
Chapter 32: Buster Bear Nearly Breaks Up School
Animals Covered: Grizzly Bear, the Alaska or Great Brown Bear and the Polar Bear
Animals Covered: The Virginia Opossum, which is the only North American Marsupial
Chapter 35: Lightfoot, Blacktail, and Forkhorn
Animals Covered: The White-tailed or Virginia Deer, Black-tailed Deer and Mule Deer
Chapter 36: Bugler, Flathorns and Wanderhoof
Animals Covered: The Elk or Wapiti, Moose and Caribou
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Animals Covered: The Buffalo or Bison, Antelope and Musk Ox
Chapter 38: Two Wonderful Mountain Climbers
Animals Covered: The Rocky Mountain Sheep or Bighorn and the Rocky Mountain Goat
Animals Covered: the Peccary or Wild Pig and the Armadillo
Chapter 40: The Mammals of the Sea
