Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer

Men are strange creatures! I think I’ll hunt one some day just to teach him a lesson, says Lightfoot the Deer to his new friend, Peter Rabbit.

Lightfoot is glad of all the animal friends he meets in the Green Forest – especially Paddy the Beaver, who saves him from harm. But what about these men? There’s that strange one – the farmer. Should Lightfoot trust this man – when a second one is stalking him with a terrible gun?

Thornton Burgess’s tales of woodland and meadow have delighted readers young and old for nearly a century.