Project Gutenberg 2004-09-02 Public domain in the USA. 131 Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) 1874 1965 Burgess, Thornton Waldo Cady, Harrison 1877 1970 Cady, Walter Harrison Cady, W. Harrison (Walter Harrison) Happy Jack Reading ease score: 89.4 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Stephen Schulze and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. "Happy Jack" by Thornton W. Burgess is a children's story written in the early 20th century that follows the adventures of Happy Jack Squirrel in the natural world. The book delves into the themes of greed, friendship, and self-discovery, primarily focusing on the titular character's experiences and interactions with other woodland creatures, including his cousin Chatterer the Red Squirrel and Striped Chipmunk. At the start of the narrative, Happy Jack is portrayed as a cheerful and somewhat greedy squirrel who discovers a bountiful tree filled with ripe hickory nuts. His desire to hoard the nuts leads to a comical confrontation with Chatterer, resulting in a quarrel between the two cousins. As they argue, they inadvertently knock the very nuts they sought after to the ground, involving Striped Chipmunk in their antics. This opening sequence establishes the tone of the book, highlighting Happy Jack's self-centeredness and the ensuing chaos that arises from it. The interplay of characters and their personalities sets the stage for the rest of the story, centered around themes of cooperation and the consequences of greed. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Squirrels -- Juvenile fiction Forest animals -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Children's Literature Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 166217 163746 2024-10-06T07:38:32.438993 2023-10-06T08:54:40.369826 text/html text/html 159909 2020-12-18T04:46:41 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 352162 2020-12-18T04:46:41 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 430391 2024-10-06T07:38:38.391936 application/epub+zip 432065 2024-10-06T07:38:34.474985 application/epub+zip 125452 2024-10-06T07:38:33.191967 application/epub+zip 561693 2024-10-06T07:38:41.365949 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 535347 2024-10-06T07:38:37.553955 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 196188 2022-09-07T01:45:00.633894 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 142194 142138 2024-10-06T07:38:31.686978 2023-10-06T08:54:39.773820 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 142038 2020-12-18T04:46:41 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 47989 2020-12-18T04:46:41 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20856 2024-10-06T07:38:41.506922 application/rdf+xml 12463 2024-10-06T07:38:33.743967 image/jpeg 3377 2024-10-06T07:38:33.467972 image/jpeg 418860 2024-10-06T07:38:32.464983 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia