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THIS little rhyme Paddy the Beaver made up as he toiled at building the dam which was to make the pond he so much desired deep in the Green Forest. Of course it wasn't quite true, that about working all night and all day. Nobody could do that, you know, and keep it up. Everybody has to rest and sleep. Yes, and everybody has to play a little to be at their best. So it wasn't quite true that Paddy worked all day after working all night. But it was true that Paddy had no time to play. He had too much to do. He had had his playtime during the long summer, and now he had to get ready for the long cold winter. Now of all the little workers in the Green Forest, on the Green Meadows, and in the Smiling Pool, none can compare with Paddy the Beaver, not even his cousin, Jerry Muskrat. Happy Jack Squirrel and Striped Chipmunk store up food for the long cold months when rough Brother North Wind and Jack Frost rule, and Jerry Muskrat builds a fine house wherein to keep warm and comfortable, but all this is as nothing to the work of Paddy the Beaver.

The Adventures of Paddy Beaver Thornton W Burgess 9781484970935 Books

When I was 6 and 7, and maybe a bit older, too, I read Burgess's entire Mother Nature series. My grandmother gave me all the books - she knew I loved being outdoors and was curious about the lives of wild animals. From the first, I was completely enthralled. Yes, I knew that beavers and minks and jays don't wear little vests and hats, as they do in many of the illustrations. But I lived in the country and I also knew that the lives described were real and powerful.

I'm in my 70s now, and rereading the books. For more than ten years, I have worked for a Raptor Center, where every week, I go to local schools with live birds, feathers, wings, bones, and teach children about raptors' lives and their wonders. I call one of my classes Sensational Senses: Eyes, Ears, and a Nose, about the differences between hawks, owls, and vultures. Another is Fabulous Flights, about how birds are built for flight, how each has its own style, based on its own particular body, wing, and feather construction. And how this flight determines how these birds hunt. And how that in turn determines how they live. They are all, for example, skilled hunters and most tender parents.

Burgess's series shaped my interests, honed my knowledge, at a young age, and I never lost my curiosity. It opened a rich life for me. This book in particular, reconstructed by Lovern from the articles published by Burgess, with restored chapters, is one of the best. It tells how the beaver builds his dam and his house, how he keeps himself out of danger, what he eats, and other remarkable details. The animals talk with our speech, and interact like humans. But Burgess was a naturalist, and he bases the communication he unfolds on the actual sounds and signals wild animals use. The cries of the jay that indicate a hidden predator is accurate. The raw side of nature is here, too, in the presence of the coyote, and the description of what that coyote would do to the beaver if he caught him. But the story keeps the fear and gore in good proportion with the joyful side of wild lives.

Life on our planet is not gentle: every living thing must eat other living things to survive, whether those living things are microbes or moose. Wild animals who are successful and live out their full lives do not let their attention waver for an instant because they know someone is watching them and waiting for them to let down their guard. Tough. Cruel, we might say. But even so, Earth and her denizens are also extremely beautiful and full of endless marvels.

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The Adventures of Paddy Beaver Thornton W Burgess 9781484970935 Books Reviews

My girlfriend told me she had read this series as a child but thought they were out of print. I purchased them as a gift for her family to share and they love them. I've read some of the stories at night to my children - 3, 6 and 7. They enjoy the stories. My 7 year old has read some but it may be more appropriate for an older reader. Some of the antics take place over several short chapters and need to be summarized so the kids can follow - for example, one animal tricks another animal into going into a barrel lying on its side at the top of a hill (can you see a problem!). The barrel rolls down the hill and the animal looks out and sees another animal who gets the blame. Overall, fun for kids and grownups (MUCH better than Junie B. Jones!)
Unless my grandmother had read these to me as a boy I don’t think I would have ever been exposed to this treasure of Americana. Easy to read with characters that kids love to hear about and closely relate to, the stories emphasize traditional values of hard work, respect for others, self reliance, and the like. Burgess’s anthropomorphic characters embody the innocence and purity of youth and a past Golden Age. Perhaps it’s nostalgia, but modern children’s books don’t reflect the same level of craft that these tales do. Anyone with kids not yet teens would likely enjoy reading this book to them or anything else by T. W. Burgess.
(This review is for the paperback edition published by Dover Publications in 2000)

This is a wonderful book and I highly recommend it. Plus, unlike many of these Dover editions of Thornton Burgess' books, it has honest-to-god original Harrison Cady illustrations.

Harrison Cady did two sets of drawings for this title
-- Published by Little, Brown, with 6 full-page grayscale illustrations.
-- Published by Grosset & Dunlap, with 14 full-page line drawings, including line-drawing versions of all 6 original grayscale illustrations in the Little, Brown editions, plus many smaller line drawings.

Cady had also made a small illustration for each chapter for the original newspaper serialization of this story in 1914. Each of those was one newspaper column wide.

This Dover edition has all the drawings, both full-page and small, from the Grosset & Dunlap editions. And they are very nicely reproduced. The only thing the Grosset & Dunlap editions have over this Dover edition is that the "Large, Easy-To-Read Type" might be easier on early readers. But if you're reading to your young kids, as I am, this Dover edition, with far more words per page, has the advantage that the pictures are in front of your kids longer and for a higher proportion of pages.

Oddly, the copyright page says "This Dover edition is an unabridged republication of the work first published by Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, in 1917. It contains the original Harrison Cady illustrations." But that is not quite true. Aside from the front cover, it does not contain the 6 Cady illustrations from the 1917 Little, Brown edition. Instead, it contains the 14 Cady illustrations from the 1951 Grosset & Dunlap edition.

If you like these illustrations, you might want to also look for a used Little, Brown edition. The Little, Brown grayscale illustrations better show Cady's remarkable vision for Burgess' creatures. But even so, I generally prefer the Grosset & Dunlap illustrations, because they are more charming, even though they are simpler. Cady did them decades later, after he had grown as an artist.

Anyway, kudos to Dover on getting it so right for this title. And at such a low price!
When I was 6 and 7, and maybe a bit older, too, I read Burgess's entire Mother Nature series. My grandmother gave me all the books - she knew I loved being outdoors and was curious about the lives of wild animals. From the first, I was completely enthralled. Yes, I knew that beavers and minks and jays don't wear little vests and hats, as they do in many of the illustrations. But I lived in the country and I also knew that the lives described were real and powerful.

I'm in my 70s now, and rereading the books. For more than ten years, I have worked for a Raptor Center, where every week, I go to local schools with live birds, feathers, wings, bones, and teach children about raptors' lives and their wonders. I call one of my classes Sensational Senses Eyes, Ears, and a Nose, about the differences between hawks, owls, and vultures. Another is Fabulous Flights, about how birds are built for flight, how each has its own style, based on its own particular body, wing, and feather construction. And how this flight determines how these birds hunt. And how that in turn determines how they live. They are all, for example, skilled hunters and most tender parents.

Burgess's series shaped my interests, honed my knowledge, at a young age, and I never lost my curiosity. It opened a rich life for me. This book in particular, reconstructed by Lovern from the articles published by Burgess, with restored chapters, is one of the best. It tells how the beaver builds his dam and his house, how he keeps himself out of danger, what he eats, and other remarkable details. The animals talk with our speech, and interact like humans. But Burgess was a naturalist, and he bases the communication he unfolds on the actual sounds and signals wild animals use. The cries of the jay that indicate a hidden predator is accurate. The raw side of nature is here, too, in the presence of the coyote, and the description of what that coyote would do to the beaver if he caught him. But the story keeps the fear and gore in good proportion with the joyful side of wild lives.

Life on our planet is not gentle every living thing must eat other living things to survive, whether those living things are microbes or moose. Wild animals who are successful and live out their full lives do not let their attention waver for an instant because they know someone is watching them and waiting for them to let down their guard. Tough. Cruel, we might say. But even so, Earth and her denizens are also extremely beautiful and full of endless marvels.