
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.
Chapter 14 Audio
Cotton Rat: eNature
Woodrat: eNature
Kangaroo Rat: eNature, Exploring Nature
Generic Rat Coloring Page
Chapter 15: Two Unlike Little Cousins
Rock Mouse and Beach 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 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
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 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 35: Lightfoot, Blacktail, and Forkhorn
Animals Covered: The White-tailed or Virginia Deer, Black-tailed Deer and Mule Deer
Chapter 38: Two Wonderful Mountain Climbers
Animals Covered: The Rocky Mountain Sheep or Bighorn and the Rocky Mountain Goat