Adventures of Old Mr. Toad - Couverture rigide

Burgess, Thornton W.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0448027097 ISBN 13 : 9780448027098

Editeur : Price Stern Sloan, 1970

Synopsis

Book by Burgess Thornton W

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt r. Indeed there were few as sweet. The only trouble was the song was so very short. It lasted only for two or three seconds. And when it ended, Old Mr. Toad looked quite his natural self again; just as commonplace, almost ugly, as ever. Peter looked at Jimmy Skunk, Jimmy looked at Unc' Billy Possum, and Unc' Billy looked at Peter. And no one had a word to say. Then all three looked back at Old Mr. Toad. And even as they looked, his throat began to swell and swell and swell, until it was no wonder that Jimmy Skunk had thought that he was in danger of blowing up. And then, when it stopped swelling, there came again those beautiful little notes, so sweet and tremulous that Peter actually held his breath to listen. There was no doubt that Old Mr. Toad was singing just as he had said he was going to, and it was just as true that his song was one of the sweetest if not the sweetest of all the chorus from and around the Smiling Pool. It was very hard to believe, but Peter and Jimmy and Unc' Billy both sa

Biographie de l'auteur

Thornton W. Burgess (1874-1965), American author, naturalist and conservationist, wrote popular children's stories including the Old Mother West Wind (1910) series.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Price Stern Sloan
• Date d'édition: 1970
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0448027097
• ISBN 13: 9780448027098
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible