Question:
I thought this would be a fun topic. I saw Bunniculas name and it made me think of it. Post abuot books that you have read that have to do with animals.
Include the author if you can remember.
Here are a few I have enjoyed.
Where the red fern grows by Wilson Rawls Big Tear Jerker but really good.
Bunnicula- Its a young persons book but a good read by James Howe
Chicken Soup for the Pet Lovers Soul bunch of good stories.
James and the Giant Peach.
Let me know if you have any good ones to add.
My parents just ordered Animals on the other side by Sylvia Browne I have not read it yet but will let you know.
Thanks!
Heather


Answer:
I just read Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and I loved it. Other books that come to mind are Charlotte's Web, Black Beauty and Where the Red Fern Grows.


Answer:
Well....you asked.....
These are the books I own. Generally, if I like a book, I own it. I have a very serious book addiction. Obviously I couldn't pick a few fav animal ones, so I posted em all.
Animal Related Fiction
On Silent Wings – Don Conroy
Wild Wings - Don Conroy
Sky Wings – Don Conroy
Run With the Wind – Tom McCaughren
Run to Earth - Tom McCaughren
Run Swift, Run Free – Tom McCaughren
The Golden Eagle – Robert Murphy
A Mink's Story – Emil Liers
A Horse Called Dragon – Lynn Hall
Caesar's Antlers – Brooks Hansen
Horse and Pony Stories – K. M. Peyton
I, Houdini – Lynne Reid Banks
Haunt Fox – Jim Kjelgaard
Lion Hound – Jim Kjelgaard
Stormy – Jim Kjelgaard
Big Red – Jim Kjelgaard
Irish Red – Jim Kjelgaard
Outlaw Red – Jim Kjelgaard
Wild Trek – Jim Kjelgaard
Snow Dog – Jim Kjelgaard
A Nose for Trouble – Jim Kjelgaard
Desert Dog – Jim Kjelgaard
The Black Fawn – Jim Kjelgaard
Chip the Dam Builder - Jim Kjelgaard
Hi Fella – Era Zistel
Child of the Wolves – Elizabeth Hall
Kavik the Wolf Dog – Walt Morey
The Wolf – Michael Fox
The Foundling Fox – Irina Korschunow
Julie of the Wolves – Jean Craighead George
Smoky the Cow Horse – Will James
Hold the Rein Free – Judy Van Der Veer
Hurry Home Candy – Meindert DeJong
Wild Appaloosa – Glen Rounds
Wild House Running – Sam Savitt
The Blind Colt – Glen Rounds
Stolen Pony – Glen Rounds
The Blind Outlaw – Glen Rounds
New Day For Dragon – Lynn Hall
The Cat That Overcame – Helen La Penta
The Grand Escape – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Catwings – Ursula K. Le Guin
Catwings Return – Ursula K. Le Guin
Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings – Ursula K. Le Guin
Jane on Her Own – Ursula K. Le Guin
Cat Walk – Mary Stolz
The Haymeadow – Gary Paulsen
The Wild Mare - Glenn Balch
The Fox Busters – Dick King-Smith
Pigs Might Fly – Dick King-Smith
The Wise One – Frank Conibear and J. L. Blundell
Cyril: The Quest of an Orphan Squirrel – Eugene McCabe
Summer Pony – Jean Slaughter Dotty
Winter Pony – Jean Slaughter Dotty
Vicky and the Black Horse – Sam Savitt
A Natural History: Dragons and Unicorns – Paul and Karin Johnsgard
Beauty – Bill Wallace
Vulpes the Red Fox – Jean Craighead George
Along Came a Dog – Meindert Dejong
A Tomcat's Tale – Hanna Johansen
Venus Among the Fishes – Elizabeth Hall and Scott O’Dell
Tawny: A Dog of the Old West – Thomas C. Hinkle
Last of the Curlews – Fred Bodsworth
The Last of the Sea Otters – Harold McCracken
The Sight – David Clement Davies
Fire Bringer – David Clement Davies
Lama – Derek Tangye
The Sheep Pig – Dick King-Smith
Ace – Dick King-Smith
Troubled Waters – Daniel P. Mannix
Run, Rainey, Run – Mel Ellis
Rusty – Joyce Stranger
Man Shy – Frank Dalby Davison
A dog Named Wolf – Erik Munsterhjelm
The Crossbreed – Allan W. Eckert
Back Fence Story – Augusta Walker
Flight to Freedom – Kent Durden
The Custer Wolf - Roger Caras
Valla: The Story of a Sea Lion – Dean Jennings
Yellow Eyes – Ruthford Montgomery
Martin's Mice – Dick King-Smith
The Mouse Butcher – Dick King-Smith
Ma-Kee – David V. Riddick
Just a Dog – Helen Griffiths
Silverwing – Kenneth Oppel
Sunwing – Kenneth Oppel
Firewing – Kenneth Oppel
The Long Flight Home – Erik Hutchinson
Wild Season – Allan W. Eckert
The Manx Star – Henry G. Lamond
The White Panther – Theodore J. Waldeck
Wild Voyageur – Adrienne Jones
The Dawn Seekers – Carol Hamilton
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Ekorn – Haakon Lie
Tales From Watership Down – Richard Adams
The Animals of Farthing Wood – Colin Dann
Farthing Wood: The Adventure Begins – Colin Dann
In the Grip of Winter – Colin Dann
Fox's Feud – Colin Dann
The Fox Cub Bold – Colin Dann
The Siege of White Deer Park – Colin Dann
In the Path of the Storm – Colin Dann
Battle for the Park – Colin Dann
King of the Vagabonds – Colin Dann
The City Cats – Colin Dann
Copycat – Colin Dann
Journey to Freedom – Colin Dann
Lion Country – Colin Dann
Pride of the Plains – Colin Dann
A Great Escape – Colin Dann
Nobody's Dog – Colin Dann
The Beach Dogs – Colin Dann
The Ram of Sweetriver – Colin Dann
Watership Down – Richard Adams
Dupper – Betty Baker
Red Dog – Bill Wallace
Vixie: The Story of a Little Fox – Michael Fox
The Winter of the Fisher – Cameron Langford
An Otter's Story – Emil E. Liers
Buck, Wild – Glenn Balch
Samaki – J. A. Davis
Ahmek – Patrick Watson
Jube: The Story of a Trapper’s Dog – Thomas C. Hinkle
The Kingfishers – Karel Novy
Two Dogs and a Horse – Jim Kjelgaard
Sharptooth: A Year of the Beaver – David Allenby Smith
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert C. OBrien
Wilderness Orphan – Dorothy Cottrell
The Last Eagle – Daniel Mannix
Bambi - Felix Salten
The Young Grizzly – Paige Dixon
The Moon of the Wild Pigs – Jean Craighead George
The Horse – Siegfried Stander
Chester's Barn – Lindee Climo
One Day on Beetle Rock – Sally Carringhar
Moshie Cat – Helen Griffiths
One Day at Teton Marsh – Sally Carringhar
The Mountain Lion – Robert Murphy
The Peregrine Falcon – Robert Murphy
Traveller – Richard Adams
The Longest Flight – Jeremy Lucas
Panther - Roger Caras
Sarang - Rpger A. Caras
Icebound Summer - Sally Carrighar
The Running Foxes - Joyce Stranger
Halic: The Story of a Gray Seal - Ewan Clarkson
The Great Auk - Allan W. Eckert
Plague Dogs - Richard Adams
Wild Goose Brother Goose - Mel Ellis
Treasures of the Vatican Library
The Field Guide to Little Known and Seldom Seen Birds of North America
Another Field Guide to Little Known and Seldom Seen Birds of North America
Animal Related Non Fiction
There's an Owl in the Shower – Jean Craighead George
Sota Djur
Sundari - Pocky Davis
Camel Lot - Moselle Schaffer
The Last Tasmanian Tiger: The History and Extinction of the Thylacine - Robert Paddle
Out of Harm’s Way - Terri Crisp
Emergency Animal Rescue Stories - Terri Crisp
Born Smart? – Peter Cook and Laura Suzuki
A Place for Owls – Katherine McKeever
The Wilds of Whip-Poor-Will Farm – Janet Foster
Quail in My Bed – Burley Pachwood
Love, Miracles and Animal Healing – Allen M. Schoen and Pam Proctor
Behind the Dolphin Smile – Richard O’Barry
Sevengill: The Shark and Me – Don Reed
The Dolphins and Me – Don Reed
Lost and Found – Elizabeth Hess
Among Grizzlies – Timothy Treadwell
The Parrot's Lament – Eugene Linden
Come On Seabiscuit – Ralph Moody
The Red Hourglass - - Gordon Grice
Only a Gringo Would Die for an Anteater – Michael Milts
Animalwatching – Desmond Morris
Animal Days – Desmond Morris
Horsewatching – Desmond Morris
Dogwatching – Desmond Morris
Catwatching – Desmond Morris
Dog's Best Friend – Ursula Birr, Gereld Krakauer and Daniela Osiander
The Crocodile Hunter - Steve and Terri Irwin
Incident at Hawk's Hill – Allan Eckert
How Do You Spank a Porcupine? – Ronald Rood
Fitzgo – Paul Wilkes
The Snoring Log Mystery – Todd Lee
Solo: The Story of an African Wild Dog – Hugo Van Lawick
Arnie the Darling Starling – Margarete Sigl Corbo and Diane Marie Barras
That Quail, Robert – Margaret Stranger
Frosty: A Raccoon to Remember – Harriet Weaver
Love in the Dog House – Molly Douglas
The Animals Came in One by One – Buster Lloyd Jones
Good Companions – Ir Zistel
Lucy: Growing Up Human – Maurice Temerlin
Orphans of the Sea – Ken Jones
Gorilla in the Garage – Don Hepworth
Horse Stories – Gayle Bunney
Time is Short and the Water Rises – John Walsh
When Elephants Weep Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Rima: The Monkey's Child – Harry Lee Little
Classic Lives – Caroline Silver
Strange Animals I Have Known – Raymond Ditmars
The Animal Connection – Jean-Yves Domalain
Big Ben – Lawrence Scanlan
A Pony's Tale – Jane Burton and Michael Allaby
Orphan: The Story of a Baby Woodchuck – Faith McNulty
The Octopus and the Orangutan - Eugene Linden
Best Friends: The True Story of the World’s Most Beloved Animal Sanctuary -
In the Shadow of Man - Jane Goodall
Virunga - Farley Mowat
Vet Stories
Animal Crackers – Mel Tonken
The Swan in my Bathtub - Mary Jane Stretch
The Animals in my Life - Grant Kendall
More Animals In My Life – Grant Kendall
Shaggy Dog and Other Stories: Tales of a Kiwi Vet – David Marshall
I Never Met an Animal I didn't Like – Rory Foster
Dr. Wildlife – Rory Foster
The Wandering Whale – David Taylor
Zoovet – David Taylor
Going Wild – David Taylor
Next Panda, Please - David Taylor
Vet in Green Pastures – Hugh Lasgarn
Make a Cow Laugh – John Holgate
On a Pig's Back – John Holgate
A Sheep's Eye View – John Holgate
Country Vet – Denis Farrier
The Beasts of My Fields – David Creaton
Beasts and Babies – David Creaton
Zoo Doctor – Oliver Graham-Jones
The Avian Ark – Kit Chub
The Dolphin Doctor – Sam Ridgway
All Wild Creatures Welcome – Patrica Curtis
Is There a Doctor in the Zoo? – David Taylor
Don't Turn Your Back in the Barn – David Perrin
Dr. Dave's Stallside Manner – David Perrin
Where Does it Hurt? – David Perrin
All Creatures Great and Small – James Herriot
All Things Bright and Beautiful – James Herriot
All Things Wise and Wonderful – James Herriot
The Lord God Made Them All – James Herriot
Every Living Thing – James Herriot
Animal ER – Vicki Croke
Cries of the Wild – Jeff Lederman
The Tarantula Whisperer – Laura Pasten
Fields and Pastures New - John McCormack
A Friend of the Flock - John McCormack
The Hero of the Herd - John McCormack


Answer:
All the James Herriot books
When I was a teenager I liked My Friend Flicka


Answer:
Originally Posted by Kate
Well....you asked.....

These are the books I own. Generally, if I like a book, I own it. I have a very serious book addiction. Obviously I couldn't pick a few fav animal ones, so I posted em all.


Answer:
I forgot:
-Animal Farm
-Watership Down


Answer:
Kate, your list brought back many old memories from when I was young.
I think I read most if not all the Jim Kjelgaard
books.
I have a very old picture of my brother reading me the Smoky the Cow Horse book by Will James when I was like 4 years old.
I loved the Glen Rounds books also.
That is quite the collection


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I loved the book "Old Yeller"...

"Mud Blossom" by Betsy Byars.
It is absolutely hilarious! Its about a lab that gets himself into a heap of mischievious troubles along with his owner..lol its too cute!

"Fluke"... a must read! (About the dog, not the whale!)

"Flowers For Algernon" Its about a man, Charlie, that is mentally ill and has a friend pet lab rat, that has undergone a special surgery that Charlie also undergoes in order to help him with his mental instability...at the beginning, you can barely read what Charlie is typing, and then it becomes perfect...and this rat helps him out and is his friend...but I'm really sketchy on the storyline...I read it way back and it was amazing. I remember crying at the end!


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kate im surprised to not see gerald durrell among your books. look him up, i think you will like him.


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I started to read My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Duvall when I was in grade six or so, but I never did finish it. I bought it a few years back (because I remember liking what I read), but I still haven't gotten around to reading it.