Don't forget the Green Forest series, by Thornton W. Burgess. He wrote a series of novels about the daily struggles of the animal inhabitants of a forest. Some of you may remember the cartoon based on these books that ran in the 1980s.
My grandmother had copies of these books dating from the early 1900s, which I read as a kid. Reading the text and looking at the woodcut-style pictures really gives you a feeling for how much society has changed over the years. People thought _differently_ back then. It's kind of neat having a window back to earlier times. And the stories are good too }:).
Don't forget the Green Forest series, by Thornton W. Burgess. He wrote a series of novels about the daily struggles of the animal inhabitants of a forest. Some of you may remember the cartoon based on these books that ran in the 1980s.
My grandmother had copies of these books dating from the early 1900s, which I read as a kid. Reading the text and looking at the woodcut-style pictures really gives you a feeling for how much society has changed over the years. People thought _differently_ back then. It's kind of neat having a window back to earlier times. And the stories are good too }:).