Project Gutenberg 2004-09-02 Public domain in the USA. 282 Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) 1874 1965 Burgess, Thornton Waldo Cady, Harrison 1877 1970 Cady, Walter Harrison Cady, W. Harrison (Walter Harrison) Happy Jack 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.) Reading ease score: 89.4 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Squirrels -- Juvenile fiction Forest animals -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Children's Literature Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Novels 166325 2025-06-06T04:47:16.475507 text/html 159909 2020-12-18T04:46:41 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 430479 2025-06-06T04:47:22.438489 application/epub+zip 432054 2025-06-06T04:47:18.559479 application/epub+zip 125431 2025-06-06T04:47:17.264487 application/epub+zip 561583 2025-06-06T04:47:25.453460 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 535333 2025-06-06T04:47:21.585456 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 196188 2022-09-07T01:45:00.633894 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 142138 2023-10-06T08:54:39.773820 text/plain 16873 2025-06-06T04:47:25.625439 application/rdf+xml 12463 2025-06-06T04:47:17.831498 image/jpeg 3377 2025-06-06T04:47:17.548486 image/jpeg 418889 2025-06-06T04:47:16.503492 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia