When I began taking piano lessons around the age of seven, our piano teacher Mrs Lodge would present us from time to time with the gift of a Thornton W. Burgess book with a vivid red dust jacket, presumably as a reward for sticking with it. I recall that one of my favorites was Jerry Muskrat, followed closely by Johnny Chuck. These were among the first chapter books I ever read.
Many of the Thornton W. Burgess books are now in the public domain and can be downloaded for free in PDF format from the Internet Archive. For example, the book:
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