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Title: Happy Jack
Author: Thornton W. Burgess
Narrator: Tom S Weiss
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-31-17
Publisher: Spoken Realms
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Kids, Ages 0-4
Publisher's Summary:
Happy Jack is a grey squirrel who lives in the Green Forest. Like most little creatures, he must fend for himself. Happy Jack has discovered a tree that chocked full of hickory nuts. He wants them to be all his own and believes the tree is his because he found the nuts. But his cousin Chatterer the Red Squirrel doesn't believe this. A loud quarrel ensures between the two along with a chase and suddenly the hickory nuts are gone! Where could they have gone? As with all Thornton Burgess books, young listeners are taught valuable lessons about nature and positive virtues of life.
Thornton W. Burgess was a conservationist and author of children's stories. He loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years. By the time he retired, he had written over 170 books and 15,000 stories for a daily newspaper column.
Members Reviews:
Happy Jack learns a lesson on selfishness
All of Burgess's animal stories give you the feeling that we are hearing a voice of someone who know the land and the animals he wrote about. Well, I am sure he did. He did not spent time in front of the tube but likely knew the feel of cold dew on the morning grass, the rustle of fall leaves while walking through the woods and the warming rays of a summer sun climbing in the sky. Burgess could give a twist to an animals natural temperament and turn it into a personality you could believe in and identify with.
His stories are from an earlier era and style. But for the person looking for that kind of story they work for kids today. Well, at least I can get my grandchildren (3-5) to pay attention to these tales. They also carry a moral for the reader. Something one seems to miss in the contemporary children's stories that are so busy avoiding being pious or preachy, if the writers even know of such topics.
Yes, these are the tales told by the older school of children's story writers that come from those who experienced the natural order of a world where the wild animal was just over the fence line of in the orchard at night and scurrying off into the forest at daybreak.
One might call this "realist" literature with a twist.
The audible is awful, do not buy it!
LOVE these books by Thornton W. Burgess. DO NOT PURCHASE the audible; it's computer generated and AWFUL!
Five Stars
We love all of the Burgess "nature" books!
Entertaining Read
Every chapter begins with a short witty reflection by Happy Jack. Appropriate for emerging readers and the adventures of the Green Meadows are guarenteed to capture their attention.
Fun Five Minute Stories
Great five minute stories that I remember reading as a kid and now I can start reading them to my daughter. Simple and easy to understand, many of the stories teach lessons about morals, instead of mindless blather. I am enjoying reading through the series again.