Tuesday, March 9

Danny Meadow Mouse




Thornton Burgess's Danny Meadow Mouse, illustration by Harrison Cady. Favorite children's books of the Booth family for several generations. I believe that Danny and his family have been wintering in my side yard. As the drift by the old yellow rosebush has finally started to disappear, this is what I found emerging out of the snow. The doorway is on the lower right, and the occupants seem to have left for parts unknown.

2 comments:

Andora said...

nice..I wrote this book down gonna look for it..

Caroline said...

Andora,
Thornton Burgess wrote a whole series in the 1920s and on. My dad had first editions from his childhood collection that all 4 of us kids covet. My grandson is 4th generation to hear them as bedtime stories. I still like to read them as escapist literature, they are fun and you learn stuff you didn't know. A field guide in story form.