Nana Reads ...

In these exciting chapters, Danny Meadow Mouse plays hide-and-seek again but, this time, it's not fun but frightening! When old Granny Fox comes to play, Danny had better watch out!

For the next few episodes, I'll be reading through this chapter book which was written by Thornton W. Burgess as part of The Bedtime Storybooks series and published in 1943. In these chapters we learn why Danny Meadow Mouse is worried and about how he loves to play hide and seek with ... Reddy Fox! Do you think that's a good idea? Not me!

Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel and Chatterer the Red Squirrel are cousins, but they quarrel. A lot!

Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel thinks he knows all about his family. Do you think he does? When Happy Jack, along with his cousin, Chatterer the Red Squirrel, goes to school with Peter and Jumper, they all get a surprise.

Did you know there were rabbits and hares bigger than Jumper? Peter and Jumper learn all about them from Old Mother Nature.

How would you like to have Old Mother Nature as your teacher? Peter and Jumper do and they have so much to learn.

As you and I both know, Peter Rabbit is curious about all the little meadow and forest folks. But, as it turns out, he has a thing or two to learn about his own family!

We now begin a new series of stories, all from this book. We will encounter old friends and meet many new ones. Along with Burgess himself, I hope these readings will "stimulat[e] a desire to preserve and protect a priceless heritage ... which a heedless present threatens through wanton and reckless waste to deny the future." I feel a bit like a voice crying in the wilderness but if you're listening, that's enough. Thank you.

Jerry Muskrat knows it's going to be a long, cold winter but his friends want him to play.

As you know, Peter Rabbit is a curious fellow. When there's something he doesn't know, he just has to find out. But Striped Chipmunk has a secret and he's not telling.