When book reviewer and blogger Sarah Curtis Graziano recently selected Thornton Burgess' children's classic Old Mother West Wind to include in her review of read-aloud books with multi-age appeal for Babble.com, a Walt Disney-sponsored site for parents, she wonderfully highlights a remarkable 107-year-old children's book. As my biography Nature's Ambassador: The Legacy of Thornton W. Burgess (Schiffer, 2013) relates, Old Mother West Wind was published in 1910, the first chil

When book reviewer and blogger Sarah Curtis Graziano recently selected Thornton Burgess' children's classic Old Mother West Wind to include in her review of read-aloud books with multi-age appeal for Babble.com, a Walt Disney-sponsored site for parents, she wonderfully highlights a remarkable 107-year-old children's book. As my biography Nature's Ambassador: The Legacy of Thornton W. Burgess (Schiffer, 2013) relates, Old Mother West Wind was published in 1910, the first chil