Thornton Burgess

Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 17, 1874 – June 5, 1965) was an American conservationist and author of children's stories. He was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man, after his newspaper column ''Bedtime Stories''. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for the daily newspaper column. Provided by Wikipedia