Books with title The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot Slumber-Town Tales

Hardcover - 1921 - Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers. Brown linen boards with black lettering are square, spine is straight and tight, tips are slightly curled, very little edge wear. The pastedown and free endpapers front and rear are pictorial. Illustrations are done by harry L. Smith. A wonderful children's book in remarkable condition. No dust jacket.

Arthur Scott Bailey (1877-1949) was author of more than forty children's books. Bailey attended St. Albans Academy and graduated in 1896, in a class of only eleven other students. He then went on to the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, where he became involved in a fraternal organization, Sigma Phi. However, he left UVM in 1901 and transferred to Harvard, where he earned his bachelor's degree. In 1904 he travelled to New York City and became an editor for various publishers. Which publishers these were is unknown, with the exception of the Macaulay Company, where he was working in early 1915. Among his most famous works are: Sleepy-Time Tales: The Tale of Frisky Squirrel (1915), Sleepy-Time Tales: The Tale of Peter Mink (1916), Tuck-me-in Tales: The Tale of Jasper Jay (1917), Tuck-me-in Tales: The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (1918), Slumber-Town Tales: The Tale of Henrietta Hen (1921) and Slumber-Town Tales: The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot (1921).

The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot - Slumber-Town Tales is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Arthur Scott Bailey is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Arthur Scott Bailey then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

When Turkey Proudfoot spreads his tail and strutts around the barn yard the hens and animals hoot and holler. Boy can Trukey Proudfoot get mad. Another delightful tale among the animals by Arthur Scott Bailey from his Slumber-Town Tales. Short chapters make this an ideal choice for bedtime reading. Recommended by the Gunston Trust for Nonviolence in Children's Literature. Ages 3 - 10.

All the hen turkeys thought Turkey Proudfoot a wonderful creature. They said he had the most beautiful tail on the farm. When he spread it and strutted about Farmer Green's place the hen turkeys were sure to nudge one another and say, "Ahem! Isn't he elegant?" But the rest of the farmyard folk made quite different remarks about him. They declared Turkey Proudfoot to be a silly, vain gobbler, noisy and quarrelsome.

Now, there was truth in what everybody thought and said about this lordly person, Turkey Proudfoot. He did have a huge tail, when he chose to spread it; and his feathers shone with a greenish, coppery, bronzy glitter that might easily have turned the head of anybody that boasted such beautiful colors. Certainly the hen turkeys turned their heads—and craned their necks—whenever Turkey Proudfoot came near them. And when he spoke to them, saying "Gobble, gobble, gobble!" in a loud tone, they were always pleased. The hen turkeys seemed to find that remark, "Gobble, gobble, gobble!" highly interesting. But everybody else complained about the noise that Turkey Proudfoot made, and said that if he must gobble they wished he would go off by himself, where people didn't have to listen to him.

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