Grunhogda Groundhog
Diane has seen Grunhogda Groundhog spend
the better part of a day bringing mouthfuls of straw in her mouth
to her home which is in the ash fill of the Corgyncombe barn
ramp. She told Diane that she was making new straw mattresses for
her family. In the photographs Grunhogda is eating an apple. She
gathers apples and it is said that she makes the best apple pies.
In Thornton W. Burgess' book On the Green Meadows,
he speaks of Johnny Chuck and how by the time fall has come he
has grown so stout that everyone calls him "Fatty".
"As Peter Rabbit said, after one good look at him you just
had to call him 'Fatty'." Grunhogda has been seen about
Corgyncombe wearing the most darling bonnet and apron but only
Diane and Sarah have witnessed this!
Grunhogda Groundhog
In Tasha Tudor's Around the
Year, a groundhog can be seen hibernating on the
January coasting page. A groundhog is on the cover of The
Lord is My Shepherd, The Twenty-Third Psalm,
illustrated by Tasha Tudor. Inside there are more, including a
groundhog mum and her babies in one of the borders.
Frog
In Tasha Tudor's 1 is One,
if one looks close, one can find several frogs throughout the
book. In Tasha Tudor's A Wreath of Days,
a frog can be found under one of the doors of the Advent
Calendar.
A turkey with eight little ones.
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