Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Winkie, the Wily Woodchuck: Her Many Adventures

“Isn’t it too hot to do anything?” was what Blinkie, her sister, wanted to know. “Let’s just sit here by the front door, where we can easily pop down into our underground house if anything happens.”

Chapters

6. CHAPTER VI

Winkie, the wily woodchuck, was so frightened at the sight of the dog――even more frightened than she had been at the distant blasting explosion――that she ran on and on through t...

3. CHAPTER III

Just as soon as Winkie told the other woodchucks to be quiet and listen, they all remained as still as though frozen in their places. Not one made a move. This is what wild anim...

9. CHAPTER IX

Though Winkie had never been very close to any dog except Don, the wily woodchuck knew the bark of this dog meant danger. It is this way with many wild animals, and even with yo...

8. CHAPTER VIII

Just as soon as Winkie felt the pain in her leg, a hard pinching and pulling, she knew what had happened just as well as if her mother had told her.

5. CHAPTER V

Tired by their hard work in making their way out of their burrow, and weary with the journey to the woods, Winkie, Blinkie, and Blunk slept rather late the next morning. Father...

1. CHAPTER I

“Isn’t it too hot to do anything?” was what Blinkie, her sister, wanted to know. “Let’s just sit here by the front door, where we can easily pop down into our underground house...

12. CHAPTER XII

Out of the yard, over the brook, and across the meadow hurried Winkie, as fast as her fat little body could waddle. Woodchucks, especially when they are fat from much eating, ar...

2. CHAPTER II

Blunk, the boy woodchuck, was so frightened by what he heard and especially by what he saw――his sister falling in a heap amid the clover――that for a little while he could do not...

7. CHAPTER VII

Slicko, the jumping squirrel, had told the truth about the storm. The tree, in the upper part of which the squirrel had a nest and in a lower hollow part of which Winkie had bee...

4. CHAPTER IV

The family of woodchucks huddled close together in the middle of the underground house of earth in which they had lived so happily for many months. It was dark down there, but t...

11. CHAPTER XI

That night, for some reason or other, Alice could not sleep. She had played in the evening with her brother, after they had put Winkie through some of her tricks. Then the wily...

10. CHAPTER X

Alice followed her brother, also dropping her books on the path that led around the house. What did a few school books matter when Winkie, the wily woodchuck, was in danger?