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Thornton Waldo Burgess was an American nature conservationist and writer. He was the author of more than 170 books, including his “bed time stories” about the adventures of woodland animals. The Adventures of Sammy Jay was published in 1915.

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Thornton Waldo Burgess was an American nature conservationist and writer. He was the author of more than 170 books, including his “bed time stories” about the adventures of woodland animals. The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel was published in 1915.

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Thornton Waldo Burgess was an American nature conservationist and writer. He was the author of more than 170 books, including his “bed time stories” about the adventures of woodland animals. The Adventures of Danny Meadowmouse was published in 1915.

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Thornton Waldo Burgess was an American nature conservationist and writer. He was the author of more than 170 books, including his “bed time stories” about the adventures of woodland animals. The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat was published in 1914.

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Thornton Waldo Burgess was an American nature conservationist and writer. He was the author of more than 170 books, including his “bed time stories” about the adventures of woodland animals. The Adventures of Peter Cottontail was published in 1914.

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Thornton Waldo Burgess was an American nature conservationist and writer. He was the author of more than 170 books, including his “bed time stories” about the adventures of woodland animals. The Adventures of Johnny Chuck was published in 1913.

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Thornton Waldo Burgess was an American nature conservationist and writer. He was the author of more than 170 books, including his “bed time stories” about the adventures of animals. His wife died a year into their marriage, leaving him to raise his young son alone, and these bedtime stories began as his son’s evening entertainment. All in all Burgess…

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AA Milne primarily wrote plays in the early 1900s in England, but the success of the Winnie the Pooh books has overshadowed his other creative endeavors, something Milne resented. His son, Christopher Robin Milne, had a stuffed bear, first named Edward, then renamed Winnie after a tame bear at the zoo. The other characters in the story were named after …

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Alan Alexander Milne, better known as AA Milne, was an English playwright and author. He wrote the Winnie the Pooh stories for his son, Christopher Robin Milne. The stories were inspired by a visit to the London Zoo, where they saw and loved a small black bear named Winnipeg. Winnie the Pooh was published in 1926.