Little Joe Otter is a playful, but shy fellow. He loves to romp and swim and slide on the banks of the Smiling Pool Even though he plays and swims with abandon, he is extremely aware of his surroundings. The second a strange animal appears, or he hears an unusual sound, he would disappear beneath the surface of the Smiling Pool with hardly a ripple to show he was ever there.
One day Little Joe appears at the pool with a wife, which surprised all the animals of the pool. But it was a pleasant surprise especially for his friend Peter Rabbit. The otter couple have two cubs that they must feed and raise, and teach about dangers from foxes and traps. The Smiling Pool may not be as safe for a family as it once was.
This is a charming and old-fashioned children’s book which clearly imparts the author’s love of nature. It has a simple plot and simple characters, with each chapter just the right length to read to children at bedtime.
Burgess’s animal stories are perfect for reading with young children. Each animal has it’s own vibrant personality–from vain Sammy Jay, to clever Reddy Fox, and curious Peter Rabbit–and each story explores the perspective of a different member of the Green Forest.
In one reader’s words – Adorable and sweet, with short chapters easy for young readers.
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KEYWORDS/TAGS: Little Joe Otter, Thornton Burgess, folklore, fairy tales, animal stories, children’s stories, fables, legends, Spring, Surprise, Peter Rabbit, Goes-a-Looking, Home, Learn, Sitting Still, School, Green Forest, First, Swimming Lesson, Great Fun, Slippery Slide, Farmer Brown, son, Luck, Family, Fishing, Party, Young Fisherman, Sammy Jay, Queer, strange Trail, Curios, Satisfaction, Coasting Party, Mrs. Joe, Decision, Fun, Travelling, Yowler, Bobcat, Smallest Otter, Wilful, Young Otter, Meek, Race for Life, Clever Trapper, Setting, Traps, Suspicious, Suspicion, Warning, Foolish, Lost Appetite, Price of Freedom, Pay the Price, Move On, Fish, Disappear, Living Heap, Snow, Owl,
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Thornton W. (Waldo) Burgess (1874-1965).
Burgess was an American author, naturalist and conservationist, wrote popular children’s stories including the Old Mother West Wind (1910) series. He would go on to write more than 100 books and thousands of short-stories during his lifetime.
Thornton 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 column, ’Bedtime Stories’. He was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15, 000 stories for the daily newspaper column.
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