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Treasury of Animal Stories

How Saint Francis preached to the birds

From the Navaho hunting song

Song of the horse

Tale of the gypsy horse / Donn Byrne

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Kerfol / Edith Wharton

The wood duck / James Thurber

The gift / John Steinbeck

The conversion of St. Wilfrid / Rudyard Kipling

Chanticleer and Pertelote / Chaucer

Hey diddle, diddle, the cat / Eden Phillpotts

Black Cat / Edgar Allan Poe

How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix / Robert Browning

The song of the falcon / Maxim Gorki

The crocodile / Fiodor Dostoievski

Makel-Adel / Ivan Turgeneff

The oldest dog story in literature

Æpyornis Island / H.G. Wells

Whippetsnapper / Florence Healey

The king of the cats / Stephen Vincent Benét

Sredni Vashtar / Saki

Argos / Homer

Battling a sea monster / Victor Hugo

Northwind / Herbert Ravenel Sass

The witch hare / Walter de la Mare

The knight and the greyhound / Walter de la Mare

A sailor's yarn / John Masefield

The squaw / Bram Stoker

Riquet / Anatole France

For my lady / Albert R. Wetjen

The honk-honk breed / Stewart Edward White

On cats / T.S. Eliot

The backbreaker's bride / Henry Williamson

A cat in the family / Winifred Williams

Miss Holloway's goat / Luigi Pirandello

A vendetta / Guy de Maupassant

Mehitabel's extensive past / Don Marquis

Madame Jolicœur's cat / Thomas A. Janvier

Alice in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll

The urban rat and the suburban rat / Guy Wetmore Carryl

Blue-jays / Mark Twain

The pope's mule / Alphonse Daudet

The oracle of the dog / Gilbert K. Chesterton

The wild goat's kid / Liam O'Flaherty

Then the witch came / E. Louise Mally

A passion in the desert / Honoré de Balzac

A tent in agony / Stephen Crane

For the love of a man / Jack London

Kashtanka / Anton Chekhov

A friendly rat / W.H. Hudson

The stuff of dreams / Helen Dore Boylston

Lady into fox / David Garnett

The Rubáiyát of a persian kitten / Oliver Herford

The capture of the great white whale / Herman Melville

Rab and his friends / John Brown

Mary / John Collier.

Audience
childrens
Length
epic · 624 pages

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