The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack (The Famous Burgess Bedtime Story Books Volume 12)

viii, 189, [3] pp. 8vo. An installment in Burgess's popular Bedtime Story Books series, with illustrations by Harrison Cady. "So go the guns ripping the air after poor Mrs. Quack! And now Mr. Quack has gone missing along the Big River -- and Peter Rabbit, try as he might, can think of no way to help. Then Sammy the Bluejay and Blacky the Crow arrive! The author of Old Mother West Wind spins another tale of wonderful nature-adventure in The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack." "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."