This collection includes† Mother West Wind "Why" Stories, Mother West Wind "Where" Stories, Mother West Wind's Children, The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad, The Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The Adventures of Prickly Porky, the Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum, Lightfoot the Deer, and Bowser the Hound.† According to Wikipedia: "Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 ñ June 5, 1965) was a conservationist and author of children's stories. Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his newspaper colum.”