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Among the Forest People: Classic Nature Stories of Woodland Animals for Young Readers
Hardcover
AnimalsGeneral Juvenile FictionScience & Nature
ISBN13: 9781515435235
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A red squirrel, a great horned owl, a rattlesnake, a mole, a crow, and other woodland creatures carry young readers into a forest alive with personality, danger, curiosity, and quiet lessons. Among the Forest People gathers Clara Dillingham Pierson's gentle animal stories into a lively children's nature classic, blending storybook charm with close observation of the habits, homes, and temperaments of forest animals.
Written for young readers but still appealing as a read-aloud, the book turns natural history into character-driven storytelling. Each tale gives the animals recognizable feelings and social lives without losing the sense that they belong to the real woods. Pierson's stories teach lessons about kindness, pride, selfishness, courage, patience, and getting along with others, but they do it through incident and animal behavior rather than heavy-handed preaching.
First published in 1898 by E. P. Dutton & Company, Among the Forest People is part of Pierson's well-loved Among the People nature-story series, which helped make woodland, meadow, pond, farmyard, and night animals vivid for generations of children. It is a strong fit for families, homeschool readers, classroom read-alouds, nature-study shelves, and readers who enjoy Thornton W. Burgess, early children's animal fiction, and old-fashioned moral nature tales.
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