Animals & Nature
Alcatraz
Alcatraz tells the captivating tale of a wild horse, renowned for its untamable spirit, and the determined man who dares to challenge its re…
The Burgess Bird Book for Children
The Burgess Bird Book for Children is a zoology book written in the form of a story featuring Peter Rabbit. Peter learns from his friend Je…
Billy Mink
“The stranger and the unknown must be always looked on with distrust.” -- Billy MinkThe Green Forest and the Smiling Pool are full of adven…
The Wind in the Willows
This much-loved story follows a group of animal friends in the English countryside as they pursue adventure ... and as adventure pursues the…
Kazan
Kazan (sometimes published with the subtitle The Wolf Dog) is a once very popular novel by environmentalist and author James Oliver Curwood.…
Happy Jack
The adventures and perils of Happy Jack the Squirrel in the Green Forest, co-starring Happy Jack's cousins Chatterer the Red Squirrel and St…
Tommy and the Wishing Stone
This is the story about Tommy and how he came to better understand the animals around him. Tommy has a favourite stone that he likes to sit …
Mother West Wind Stories
Thornton Burgess gives us a collection of stories about the animals, explaining 'when' they got their peculiar traits. As usual the stories…
Among the Meadow People
Lovely book of nature written for children by teacher and naturalist Clara Dillingham Pierson. This book in the "Among the People"…
SHAT
In a post-plague world where plants have suffered as much as animals, a colony of human survivors has gathered in a fortified former-luxury …
The Call of the Wild
Buck is living a happy life in California until he is sold to pay a gambling debt. Taken to the Klondike to become a sled dog, Buck must tou…
The Wind in the Willows
The classic story of how Rat, Mole, and the other river-bankers saved Toad from his excesses. This book has it all: excitement, sentiment, d…
Black Beauty
Black Beauty is a fictional autobiographical memoir told by a horse, who recounts many tales, both of cruelty and kindness. The title page o…
Wild Animals I Have Known
Wild Animals I Have Known is an 1898 book by naturalist and author Ernest Thompson Seton. The first entry in a new genre of realistic wild-a…
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
This is the original book about the amazing Dr. Dolittle who "Besides the gold-fish in the pond at the bottom of his garden, he had rab…
The Black Fawn
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…
Happy Jack
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 t…
The Bears of Blue River
This delightful story is the tale of young Balser Brent, who has a knack for running into bears. Usually the bears come out of the interacti…
Among the Farmyard People
Among the Farmyard People invites young listeners into the charming world of farm life, where a delightful cast of animals share their stori…
Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories
Thornton W. Burgess was a conservationist and prolific author of children's books. His gently humorous stories about the animals of the mead…