Thornton Burgess Books

[Betameculia]

We have sort of started Little Hearts. I mean sort of because we're doing a bit of a conglomeration of things. Anyway, to get to my point, we're absolutely loving the Thornton Burgess books, so much so, that we are all quite carried away with them. My nearly seven year old son begs for more and revels in the stories and characters. Burgess' discussion of the characters' different foibles has really helped him understand himself and others. We have had such interesting little conversations as a result: conscience, fear, trust... Needless to say we are ahead of schedule here and I've had to order more Burgess books! I can see they are treasures my boys are going to return to time and time again.

Good literature is such nourishment for the soul and the Burgess books will stand my boys in good stead for a deep appreciation of the great classics to come.

Thank you!

Annette

[holyhart]

We loved all the Thornton Burgess books and have started collecting others from him as well. They are really quite good. Last summer we even got to go and visit the Thornton Burgess muesuem since we are fortunate enough to live not too far away.

[creativemommy]

We really enjoyed reading through those books last year, too. Even my dd listened in most days. Just last week I had gotten my kids in the car and was coming back from locking the house door when my dd called out, "Look, Mommy, there's Chatterer right behind you!" Sure enough, the backyard squirrel that was named last year after reading the book, was right there on the ground behind me.

[MistyP]

I found a removable sticker book on Amazon that had all the characters in it; my girls loved to play with it! I I paid about $3 for it but I see it is $48 now! http://www.amazon.com/Peter-Cottontail- ... 958&sr=8-2

I also found Adventures of Mrs. Quack used at a homeschool convention. We haven't read it yet.

[John'smom]

Love them here too!!!

[holyhart]

Dover publishing also has a coloring book of all the Thornton Burgess characters. It is currently on sale here for $1.48 plus s/h http://store.doverpublications.com/0486459985.html .

I saw the sticker book on Amazon used but in "very good" condition (following the same link listed by MistyP) for a little over $3 plus $3.99 s/h if anyone is interested. Ebay would be a great place to look for that as well if someone is interested in buying one. And I don't know if they are still there, (but most likely they are), I've seen audio books of some of the different books.