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    The Adventures of Bob White
    The Adventures of Bob White
    The Adventures of Bob White
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    The Adventures of Bob White

    By Thornton W. Burgess and Harrison Cady

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    Bob White is a busy bird with many friends, so why is he keeping his new nest a secret? Why did Mrs. Bob White choose such a dangerous location for their home? And when a hunter shows up, how will Farmer Brown's boy rescue the imperiled Whites? This wonderful "read aloud" edition for young children includes the original Harrison Cady illustrations.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateApr 9, 2013
    ISBN9780486263441

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      The Adventures of Bob White - Thornton W. Burgess

      The Adventures of

      Bob White

      There he discovered the lost little Bob and talked with him. F

      RONTISPIECE

      . See page 71.

      The Adventures of

      Bob White

      THORNTON W. BURGESS

      Illustrated by Harrison Cady

      PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE

      THORNTON W. BURGESS SOCIETY,

      SANDWICH, MASSACHUSETTS

      BY

      DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

      MINEOLA, NEW YORK

      DOVER CHILDREN’S THRIFT CLASSICS

      EDITOR OF THIS VOLUME: JANET BAINE KOPITO

      Copyright

      Copyright © 2011 by Dover Publications, Inc.

      All rights reserved.

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2011 in association with the Thornton Burgess Society, Sandwich, Massachusetts, who have provided a new Introduction, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, in 1919.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo), 1874–1965.

      The adventures of Bob White / Thornton W. Burgess ; illustrated by Harrison Cady. — Dover ed.

      p. cm. — (Dover children’s thrift classics)

      Summary: Bob White is a busy bird with many friends, including Farmer Brown’s boy, who tries to protect Bob and his wife when a hunter arrives.

      ISBN-13: 978-0-486-48109-8

      ISBN-10: 0-486-48109-3

         [1. Human-animal relationships—Fiction. 2. Northern bobwhite— Fiction. 3. Birds—Fiction. 4. Animals—Fiction.] I. Cady, Harrison, 1877–1970 ill. II. Title.

      PZ7.B917Aaam 2011

      [E]—dc22

      2011004939

      Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

      48109301

      www.doverpublications.com

      Introduction to the Dover Edition

      Over the years, Thornton W. Burgess wrote fourteen books about birds, or featuring birds as his main characters. His love of birds and concern for their welfare is manifest in his activities as a naturalist. In the early twentieth century, the famed illustrator Harrison Cady introduced Burgess to Moody B. Gates, the editor of People’s Home Journal. This meeting led to the production of a monthly column in which Burgess wrote stories about the natural world that were both entertaining and instructional. The magazine titled this column The Green Meadow Club. Membership in the club was open to any boy or girl who pledged to be kind to birds and animals and protect them from harm. The club was an immediate success and continued to function for twelve years.

      During World War I, 1917 to 1918, Burgess used the club to campaign for the establishment of bird sanctuaries because of the value of birds in controlling insect pests. This, in turn, increased food production for the war effort. Newspapers across the country that featured Burgess’s Bedtime Story column also took up this cause and recruited members for a Bedtime Stories Club. Two hundred thousand children joined these clubs and helped promote the establishment of nearly four thousand bird sanctuaries encompassing over 900,000 acres.

      Thornton Burgess defined the role of conservation as follows: to re-establish and maintain nature’s fine balance among all living things and to hold as a sacred trust the obligation to make only the best possible use of natural resources, to the end that the inheritance we of today have received from the past may be passed on unimpaired, even improved, to future generations.

      For his efforts to protect birds and animals, Burgess was awarded the Wildlife Protection Fund Gold Medal at the 1919 annual meeting of the New York Zoological Society. That same year, The Adventures of Bob White appeared on the bookshelves. It tells the story of how Mr. and Mrs. Bob White struggled to rear their family. Like many other Burgess books, it was adapted from a series of short stories that were printed through the Associated Newspapers syndicate from September through October of 1915. The book was reprinted in Great Britain in 1940; it was translated into Japanese in 1969 as Uzura No Bob No Boken.

      Gene Schott

      Director

      The Thornton W. Burgess Society

      Sandwich, Massachusetts

      Contents

      List of Illustrations

      There he discovered the lost little Bob and talked with him

      Hello! Here comes Old Man Coyote

      Boo! said Jimmy, and Peter nearly jumped out of his skin

      "Oh, Mrs. Peter, do, do be careful where you

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