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"Boy" The Wandering Dog - Marshall Saunders
"Boy" The Wandering Dog - Marshall Saunders
- Author: Marshall Saunders
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Another 'dog's-eye view' book for children by this early activist for the American Humane Society. In this tale, we follow the travels and adventures of Boy, a loveable and loyal wire-haired fox-terrier in city and country. - Summary by Lynne...
'Tilda Jane's Orphans - Marshall Saunders
'Tilda Jane's Orphans - Marshall Saunders
- Author: Marshall Saunders
- Genre: Animals & Nature
When the story of 'Tilda Jane appeared serially in The Youth's Companion in 1901, the original manuscript was very much condensed. When the time for book publication arrived nearly all the omitted matter was restored. However, some incidents were...
Just So Stories (version 3) - Rudyard Kipling
Just So Stories (version 3) - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Animals & Nature
These whimsical short stories offer fanciful answers to a dozen of childhood's favorite "why" and "how" questions. With their generous sprinkling of nonsense words as well as a delightfully rhythmic storytelling feel, they seem to have been written...
The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer (Version 2) - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer (Version 2) - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Lightfoot and his friends, Sammy Jay and Paddy Beaver, help each other through hunting season in the Green Forest. - Summary by Jude Somers...
Little Jack Rabbit and Chippy Chipmunk - David Cory
Little Jack Rabbit and Chippy Chipmunk - David Cory
- Author: David Cory
- Genre: Animals & Nature
David Cory is the author of over 50 children's book including the Little Jack Rabbit series and the Puss-in-Boots series. This is the fourth of the Little Jack Rabbit books. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
The Brown Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
The Brown Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Andrew Langβs Brown Fairy Book (1904) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was one of many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew Langβs Fairy Books. (Summary by...
The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad is another in the long line of children's books by conservationist Thornton W. Burgess. In this book, we follow the adventures of Old Mr. Toad as he joins the Spring Chorus at the Smiling Pool, shows off his babies,...
Among the Pond People - Clara Dillingham Pierson
Among the Pond People - Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Author: Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Animals & Nature / Short works
Lovely book for children written by teacher and naturalist Clara Dillingham Pierson. This book in the "Among the People" series explores the animal inhabitants of a pond. The beautiful writing brings the pond creatures into being in the reader's...
Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant - Richard Barnum
Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant - Richard Barnum
- Author: Richard Barnum
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Tum Tum is such a good-natured elephant, even through all his adventures. He is always so helpful, whether in his jungle home or in the circus, Tum Tum could be counted on to help everyone. That helpfulness got Tum Tum caught in the trap, but he...
The Adventures of Bob White - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Bob White - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
The Adventures of Bob White is another in the long line of children's books by conservationist Thornton W. Burgess. In this book, Bob White and Mrs. Bob White make a new home near the Old Briar Patch where they become neighbors with Peter Rabbit. We...
Bobby Gray Squirrel's Adventures - George Ethelbert Walsh
Bobby Gray Squirrel's Adventures - George Ethelbert Walsh
- Author: George Ethelbert Walsh
- Genre: Animals & Nature
In this sixth volume of the Twilight Animal series, we read about the adventures of Bobby the Gray Squirrel, who (together with his friends from the woods!) brings joy and happiness to a very special new friend. - Summary by Foon...
Little Jack Rabbit and the Squirrel Brothers - David Cory
Little Jack Rabbit and the Squirrel Brothers - David Cory
- Author: David Cory
- Genre: Animals & Nature
David Cory is the author of over 50 children's book including the Little Jack Rabbit series and the Puss-in-Boots series. This is the third of the Little Jack Rabbit books. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
Lad: A Dog - Albert Payson Terhune
Lad: A Dog - Albert Payson Terhune
- Author: Albert Payson Terhune
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Lad: A Dog is a 1919 American novel written by Albert Payson Terhune and published by E. P. Dutton. Composed of twelve short stories first published in magazines, the novel is based on the life of Terhune's real-life rough collie, Lad. Born in 1902,...
Buster Bear's Twins - Thornton W. Burgess
Buster Bear's Twins - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Continuing the adventure of Buster Bear, we meet his twins, Boxer and Woof-Woof, from their first bath to misadventures with neighbors including Peter Rabbit. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
It's Like This, Cat (Version 2) - Emily Neville
It's Like This, Cat (Version 2) - Emily Neville
- Author: Emily Neville
- Genre: Animals & Nature
This novel won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1964. This delightful story revolves around a 14 year old boy, Dave and his adopted cat, called just "Cat", who turns his ordinary everyday life into an exciting...
Uncle Remus - Joel Chandler Harris
Uncle Remus - Joel Chandler Harris
- Author: Joel Chandler Harris
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Many readers will already be familiar with Uncle Remusβ favorite animal characters β Brβer Rabbit and Brβer Fox among them β and some of the popular tales concerning them. (To this day, βtar babyβ as an expression for a particularly sticky situation...
Black Beauty (version 2) - Anna Sewell
Black Beauty (version 2) - Anna Sewell
- Author: Anna Sewell
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Black Beauty is a fictional autobiographical memoir told by a horse, who recounts many tales, both of cruelty and kindness. The title page of the first edition states that it was "Translated from the Original Equine by Anna Sewell." It was composed...
The Topaz Story Book: Stories and Legends of Autumn, Hallowe'en, and Thanksgiving - Ada M. Skinner
The Topaz Story Book: Stories and Legends of Autumn, Hallowe'en, and Thanksgiving - Ada M. Skinner
- Author: Ada M. Skinner
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
From the Introduction: "Nature stories, legends, and poems appeal to the young readerβs interest in various ways. Some of them suggest or reveal certain facts which stimulate a spirit of investigation and attract the childβs attention to the beauty...
Tommy Smith's Animals - Edmund Selous
Tommy Smith's Animals - Edmund Selous
- Author: Edmund Selous
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Tommy Smith is a wicked little boy, who would harm animals for sport. He would catch them if he could, throw stones if he could not, and generally disturb all animals around him. He became such a nuissance to everyone at last that the animals hold a...
Little Jack Rabbit's Adventures - David Cory
Little Jack Rabbit's Adventures - David Cory
- Author: David Cory
- Genre: Animals & Nature
David Cory is the author of over 50 children's book including the Little Jack Rabbit series and the Puss-in-Boots series. This is the first of the Little Jack Rabbit books. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
Toto's Merry Winter - Laura E. Howe Richards
Toto's Merry Winter - Laura E. Howe Richards
- Author: Laura E. Howe Richards
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Over a cold winter, Toto and several animal friends (who can talk!) spend cozy evenings by the fire listening to his grandmother tell fantastical stories from around the world. - Summary by Jude Somers...
Flower-Patch Among the Hills - Flora Klickmann
Flower-Patch Among the Hills - Flora Klickmann
- Author: Flora Klickmann
- Genre: Animals & Nature
After poor health forced Klickmann to move from London to the country, she began writing a series of sketches for The Girl's Own Paper and in 1916 she published the first of a series of books based on them. Her cottage, known in her books as...
Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard - Howard R. Garis
Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard - Howard R. Garis
- Author: Howard R. Garis
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Animals & Nature
Uncle Wiggily Longears, an old bunny gentleman now stricken with rheumatism and getting around with a cane, still is quite active. In these stories, he encounters a string of characters from Mother Goose's tales and has adventures that are not quite...
Happy Jack - Thornton W. Burgess
Happy Jack - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Who would have thought dropping a nut would cause so much trouble? No sooner does Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel go scampering down the tree than he finds himself in trouble with Chatterer, the Red Squirrel -- and then running for dear life -- away...
The Little Foresters; A Story of Field and Woods - Clarence Hawkes
The Little Foresters; A Story of Field and Woods - Clarence Hawkes
- Author: Clarence Hawkes
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Drawing on childhood days spent at his grandparents' New England farm, the author tells of a community of animals who gather around the old trysting tree, led by Nimrod, the old crow, with Cock-Robin, Bob the Rabbit, squirrels Frisk and Frolic, and...
How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Tail - Albert Bigelow Paine
How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Tail - Albert Bigelow Paine
- Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Short works
A small selection of children's stories from the Hollow Tree Stories series - Summary by David Gore...
The Chinese Kitten - Edna Adelaide Brown
The Chinese Kitten - Edna Adelaide Brown
- Author: Edna Adelaide Brown
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Family
Lucy and Dora are so excited to learn they will be sleeping in a tent at the beach! Then Mother and Uncle Dan tell them that their kitten, Timmy is not invited, and Father says he might even run away. Arrangements must be made for Timmy... but will...
The Wonder Garden - Frances Jenkins Olcott
The Wonder Garden - Frances Jenkins Olcott
- Author: Frances Jenkins Olcott
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"Here are 150 nature myths and short stories from all parts of the World. They are the kind that children delight in -- tales of transformations of maidens into trees and fountains, of youths into flowers, and of men into birds. Blossoms, fragrance,...
Sammie and Susie Littletail - Howard R. Garis
Sammie and Susie Littletail - Howard R. Garis
- Author: Howard R. Garis
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Once upon a time there lived in a small house built underneath the ground two curious little folk, with their father, their mother, their uncle and Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy. Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy was the nurse, hired girl and cook, all in one, and the reason she...
The Bear Family at Home - Curtis D. Wilbur
The Bear Family at Home - Curtis D. Wilbur
- Author: Curtis D. Wilbur
- Genre: Animals & Nature
THE BEAR FAMILY AT HOME -And How the Circus Came to Visit ThemOnce a little cub bear was caught in a big log trap, and taken on a train to a circus. He lived in the circus a long, long while, and every day a great many people came to see the bear,...
The Tale of Timothy Turtle - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Timothy Turtle - Arthur Scott Bailey
- Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
- Genre: Animals & Nature
One of Bailey's "Sleepy-Time Tales," this is the story of Timothy Turtle, a grumpy old turtle trying to live his life alongside Black Creek. Timothy's adventures lead him to encounters with other Black Creek creatures, Fatty Coon, Mr. Crow, Brownie...
The Kitten's Garden of Verses - Oliver Herford
The Kitten's Garden of Verses - Oliver Herford
- Author: Oliver Herford
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Poetry
The Kitten's Garden of Verses is a book of short poetry, modeled after Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. Of course, the poems in this book are intended for kittens rather than children! (Summary by Rachel)...
The Black Fawn - Jim Kjelgaard
The Black Fawn - Jim Kjelgaard
- Author: Jim Kjelgaard
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Animals & Nature
Bud Sloan was an orphan who had been 'sold out' of the orphanage to work on a farm once he'd been old enough to labor. The farm where he was to work was owned by an aging farmer and his wife who had raised a large family and were now left alone. One...
Uncle Wiggily's Fortune (version 2) - Howard R. Garis
Uncle Wiggily's Fortune (version 2) - Howard R. Garis
- Author: Howard R. Garis
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Howard Garis, one of the most prolific children's writers of the 20th century, is credited with writing over 1500 Uncle Wiggily stories, originally appearing in the Saturday Evening Post. In this collection, we have 31 more charming bedtime stories...
The Biography of a Grizzly - Ernest Thompson Seton
The Biography of a Grizzly - Ernest Thompson Seton
- Author: Ernest Thompson Seton
- Genre: Animals & Nature
I first read this little book when I was in the fifth grade, and now more than fifty years later, I still find it fascinating. Ernest Thompson Seton was a man with a concern for nature her creatures and an excellent story teller. I could almost feel...
The Talking Thrush And Other Tales From India - W. H. D. Rouse
The Talking Thrush And Other Tales From India - W. H. D. Rouse
- Author: W. H. D. Rouse
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is the second collection by this author of charming folk tales from India. The first collection is entitled The Giant Crab (Librivox audio here ). Parents or those in loco parentis should be aware that as in all folk literature, in addition to...
The Wolf Hunters - James Oliver Curwood
The Wolf Hunters - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Animals & Nature
Follow Roderick and his friends Wabi and Mukoki on their adventures in the pristine North. They fight voracious wolves, hostile natives, and the vicious elements of nature, while on the hunt. Getting more than they bargained for, they discover a...
Among the Farmyard People - Clara Dillingham Pierson
Among the Farmyard People - Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Author: Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Genre: Animals & Nature
A wonderful children's book filled with engaging stories about various farmyard animals. Each book ending with a moral which gently encourages children towards better behaviour and attitudes. - Summary by Claire Schreuder...
The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Chatterer the Red Squirrel finds himself in trouble again and is forced to abandon his old home. As the search for a new home begins, Chatterer's curiosity gets the better of him and a moment of carelessness causes him to stumble into a far...
My Doggie and I - R. M. Ballantyne
My Doggie and I - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Animals & Nature
This story surrounds a child waif, a young woman, a young gentleman doctor, and an elderly lady. This tale unfolds the story of a bond that brings these unlikely friends together and merges their separate paths of life into one common path. The bond...
