Tommy Smith's Animals

Tommy Smith's Animals

by Edmund Selous
Tommy Smith's Animals

Tommy Smith's Animals

by Edmund Selous

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Overview

Edmund Selous's "Tommy Smith's Animals" is a collection of short stories written for children. The tales revolve around animals and convey various life lessons, making them ideal bedtime reading for animal-loving children. Contents include: "The Meeting", "The Frog and the Toad", "The Rook", "The Rat", "The Hare", "The Grass-snake and Adder", "The Peewit", "The Mole", "The Woodpigeon", "The Squirrel", "The Barn-owl", and "The Leave-taking". Edmund Selous (1857 - 1934) was a British writer, ornithologist, and younger brother of the famous big-game hunter Frederick Selous. Other notable works by this author include "Beautiful Birds" (1901), "Bird Watching" (1901), and "Bird Life Glimpses" (1905). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781473340701
Publisher: Read Books Ltd.
Publication date: 09/15/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 228
File size: 867 KB
Age Range: 5 - 17 Years

About the Author

Edmund Selous (1857 - 25 March 1934) was a British ornithologist and writer. He married in 1886 and moved to Wiesbaden, Germany with his family in 1888 and then to Mildenhall in Suffolk in 1889. In the 1920s, he moved to the Weymouth village Wyke Regis in Dorset, where he lived in the folly Wyke Castle with his wife.

Selous published a variety of books on natural history, especially birds, ranging from children's books to more serious ornithological works. He travelled to southern Africa and India in his youth and later to the Shetlands, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Iceland to observe birds there. He had a particular interest in bird behaviour, sexual selection and the problem of the coordinated flight manoeuvres of flocking birds, which he sought to explain through the idea of thought-transference. He continued bird-watching and writing until near the end of his life.

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