The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse
1915 novel by Thornton W. Burgess
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The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse (1915) is a children's novel written by Thornton W. Burgess and illustrated by Harrison Cady. The main character also appears in Mr. Toad and Danny Meadow Mouse Take a Walk and Danny Meadow Mouse Learns Something (both 1914).[1]
Plot
Danny begins his tale regretting the length of his tail until he is corrected by Mr. Toad. Then he has a series of stalkings by Reddy and Granny Fox. He is captured by Hooty the Owl and escapes mid-flight to Peter Rabbit's briar patch. Peter goes to Farmer Brown's peach orchard and gets caught in a snare and barely escapes himself. Finally Danny gets trapped in a tin can and must use his wits to escape Reddy Fox again.
References
- ^ Burgess, Thornton (1944). The adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse. Grosset & Dunlap, New York. ISBN 9780448027036.
External links
- The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse at Project Gutenberg
The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse public domain audiobook at LibriVox- The adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse / by Thornton W. Burgess ; with illustrations by Harrison Cady. HathiTrust.
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