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| Author | Thornton W. Burgess |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Harrison Cady |
| Genre | Children's fiction |
| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
| Publication date | 1917 |
The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (1917) is a children's novel written by Thornton W. Burgess and illustrated by Harrison Cady.
Plot introduction
Paddy moves into the Green Forest, and Sammy Jay starts to complain he is cutting down the trees, but Sammy falls into the water and learns that this did not work out very well. After that Old Man Coyote finds out Paddy is in the Green Forest, and starts to hunt for him, though for three days Paddy outsmarts him. But one day he almost catches Paddy and he would have were it not for Sammy Jay telling Paddy to get into the water. After that Paddy and Sammy become best friends.
References
- "Project Gutenberg: The Adventures of Paddy Beaver". Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 2010-04-23.
External links
- Trieschnigg, Dolf; Hauff, Claudia (2011), Clough, Paul; Foley, Colum; Gurrin, Cathal; Jones, Gareth J. F. (eds.), "Classic Children's Literature - Difficult to Read?" (PDF), Advances in Information Retrieval, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6611, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 691–694, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-20161-5_72, ISBN 978-3-642-20160-8, retrieved 2023-11-27
- Barton, Sophie (2021). Reading on the home front: the evolution of U.S. children's literature and American values during wartime conflicts (Thesis). University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
- Hanel, Rudolf; Thurner, Stefan (2020-10-08). "The role of grammar in transition-probabilities of subsequent words in English text". PLOS ONE. 15 (10): e0240018. Bibcode:2020PLoSO..1540018H. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0240018. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 7544142. PMID 33031378.
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