Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher. In this zoology book for children, Thornton W. Burgess describes the mammals of North America in the form of an entertaining story, including plenty of detail but omitting long scientific names. There is an emphasis on conservation.

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• Chapter 00 – Preface
• Chapter 01 – Jenny Wren Gives Peter Rabbit An Idea
• Chapter 02 – Peter and Jumper Go To School
• Chapter 03 – More of Peter’s Long-legged Cousins
• Chapter 04 – Chatterer and Happy Jack Join
• Chapter 05 – The Squirrels of the Trees
• Chapter 06 – Striped Chipmunk and His Cousins
• Chapter 07 – Johnny Chuck Joins the Class
• Chapter 08 – Whistler and Yap Yap
• Chapter 09 – Two Queer Little Haymakers
• Chapter 10 – Prickly Porky and Grubby Gopher
• Chapter 11 – A Fellow With a Thousand Spears
• Chapter 12 – A Lumberman and Engineer
• Chapter 13 – A Worker and a Robber
• Chapter 14 – A Trader and a Handsome Fellow
• Chapter 15 – Two Unlike Little Cousins
• Chapter 16 – Danny’s Northern Cousins, and Nimbleheels
• Chapter 17 – Three Little Redcoats, And Some Others
• Chapter 18 – Mice with Pockets, and Others
• Chapter 19 – Teeny Weeny and His Cousin
• Chapter 20 – Four Busy Little Miners
• Chapter 21 – Flitter the Bat and His Family
• Chapter 22 – An Independent Family
• Chapter 23 – Digger and His Cousin Glutton
• Chapter 24 – Shadow and His Family
• Chapter 25 – Two Famous Swimmers
• Chapter 26 – Spite the Marten and Pekan the Fisher
• Chapter 27 – Reddy Fox Joins the School
• Chapter 28 – Old Man Coyote and Howler the Wolf
• Chapter 29 – Yowler and His Cousin Tufty
• Chapter 30 – Some Big and Little Cat Cousins
• Chapter 31 – Bobby Coon Arrives
• Chapter 32 – Buster Bear Nearly Breaks Up School
• Chapter 33 – Buster Bear’s Big Cousins
• Chapter 34 – Unc’ Billy and Old Mrs. Possum
• Chapter 35 – Lightfoot, Blacktail and Forkhorn
• Chapter 36 – Bugler, Flathorns and Wanderhoof
• Chapter 37 – Thunderfoot, Flatfoot and Longcoat
• Chapter 38 – Two Wonderful Mountain Climbers
• Chapter 39 – Piggy and Hardshell
• Chapter 40 – The Mammals of the Sea