The Burgess Bird Book for Children (Esprios Classics)

Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 17 1874 - June 5 1965) was an American conservationist and author of children's stories. Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his newspaper column Bedtime Stories. He was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man. By the time he retired he had written more than 170 books and 15000 stories for the daily newspaper column. Burgess was the son of Caroline F. Haywood and Thornton W. Burgess Sr. a direct descendant of Thomas Burgess one of the first Sandwich settlers in 1637. Thornton Sr. died the same year his son was born and the young Thornton Jr. was brought up by his mother in Sandwich. They lived in humble circumstances.