Set in the meadows, forest, marshes, and mountains near a small farm in the American northeast, these stories encourage readers to understand animal behaviors, appreciate natural resources, and enjoy life.
Neighborliness, hard work, self esteem, curiosity, patience, caution, kindness, conflict resolution, and more. Each story instills important lessons about how to be reasonable and respectful to other people.
Based on public domain texts written more than a century ago by Thornton W. Burgess, these stories have been thoughtfully typeset with accessibility in mind. Read to your children from your phone or iPad.
Handed down as physical books for generations, now updated for gender balance and to avoid stereotypes. Only five of the 64+ original characters were female, and the dialect writing was quite distracting.
Tim is a designer and toolmaker with a focus on typography. He lives and works in New York’s Hudson Valley with his wife and college sweetheart, Eileen, their three daughters, and their dogs. More at tbrown.org.
Chris is a designer, illustrator, artist and web developer living in New York’s Hudson Valley. More at csilverman.com.