Animals & Nature
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 Tale of Peter Rabbit
These are some of the wonderful little stories about animals written by Beatrix Potter. The disobedient little Peter who sneaks where he sh…
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 them!…
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 …
Bowser The Hound
Bowser the hound is a great tracking dog. He doesn't fall for many tricks, but this time he did. Old Man Coyote leads him off on a wild chas…
The Natural History
Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …
The Gamekeeper at Home
Richard Jefferies (1848 – 1887) was born and spent his childhood on a farm at Coate,Wiltshire. He joined the ‘Wiltshire and Gloucestershire …
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"…
The Adventures of Peter Cottontail
This is the story of Peter Rabbit, a mischievous, but cautious, lagomorph who lives in the Green Meadows. Peter Rabbit begins his adventures…
White Fang
White Fang (1906) was written as a companion to Jack London's successful Call of the Wild (1903). It is the tale of a wild dog born in the …
Uncle Wiggily on the Farm
Uncle Wiggily is not feeling very well and Dr. Possum suggests a unique treatment. He tells Uncle Wiggily that he needs to get out in the co…
Moni the Goat-Boy
Moni is the goat boy who takes care of all the goats belonging to the people of Fideris, Switzerland. He loves to sing, yodel, and whistle w…
Mrs. Peter Rabbit
This charming story chronicles the life of Peter rabbit and the many other woodland creatures that live in and around the brier batch. Peter…
Doctor Dolittle's Zoo
Doctor Dolittle, the man who can speak with the animals, is back home but running short of money to care for all the animals who need his he…
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo
In 1898, during the construction of river-crossing bridge for the Uganda Railway at the Tsavo River, as many as 135 railway workers were att…
The Wind in the Willows
Join Mole and Water Rat for terrifically fun romps along a river and through burrows and forests . . . visiting with Otter and Mr. Badger, a…
Swamp Cat
This adventure in the great outdoors follows the cat Frosty and a young man named Andy as they make a life for themselves in a swamp. They w…
The Natural History of Selborne
The Reverend Gilbert White was the curate of the village of Selborne, a village in Hampshire, from 1784 to his death in 1793, living most of…
American Big-Game Hunting
The first book published by The Boone and Crockett Club founded by Theodore Roosevelt and George Grinnell, who declared in their Editors Not…
Black Beauty
Black Beauty is Anna Sewell’s first and only novel. The story is told in the “first person” (or first horse) as an autobiographical memoir o…