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Charming folktales about wildlife and our environment

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.

Respectful, moral lessons for strong values

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.

Free, online children’s books from a wonderful author

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.

Beloved bedtime stories for a new generation

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 Brown

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 Silverman

Chris is a designer, illustrator, artist and web developer living in New York’s Hudson Valley. More at csilverman.com.