Chinook, the Cinnamon Cub

Here are stories of the wild life of the rich woods of Oregon.

In following the adventures of Chinook, the cinnamon bear and his sisterSnookie (western prototypes of the jolly black bears of New England),and of the Ranger’s Boy, the child will learn of tree mice and burrowmice, and of the little mountain pack-rats who build tepees, of thosegiant mousers, the bobcat and the California mountain lion, to saynothing of the bat, pika, elk, and “snowshoe rabbit,” and the everpresent Douglas squirrel.

He will wander through forests of spruce and fir to the snow-clad peaks,and back along cascading rivers, as the two cubs learn of the world inwhich they live.

The Literary Review of the New York Evening Post has said of a blackbear book: “The little bear will delight all children just because he isa ball of mischief, sagacity, awkwardness—a real bear. Allen Chaffee’sbooks are unusual for vivacity, humor, and truth to the characters ofthe no longer dumb beasts.”