The Adventures of Grandfather Frog (The Famous Burgess Bedtime Story Books Volume 4)

viii, 192 pp. 8vo. An installment in Burgess's popular Bedtime Story Books series, with illustrations by Harrison Cady. "Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 – June 5, 1965) 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 over 170 books and 15,000 stories for the daily newspaper column."