Animals & Nature
Around The Campfire
Action and adventure short stories of men and animals in the wild. - Summary by David Wales
Round About a Great Estate
John Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) wrote of country life, natural history, and agricultural practice at a time when the industrial revolutio…
The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period…
The Tale of Reddy Woodpecker
Arthur Scott Bailey, a native of the state of Vermont, wrote over forty children's books using a variety of animals, birds and even insects …
Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble
The Wibblewobble family of ducks appear in a series of 31 bedtime stories - one for each day of the month - written by Howard R. Garis. Each…
Midnight
This is an adventure story about a horse in the wild west. (Summary by Rocky Taylor)
The Tale of Cuffy Bear
A whimsical tale about the life of Cuffy bear on Blue Mountain. Cuffy is a very mischievous, disobedient bear who gets into all kinds of scr…
The Book of the Ocean
The Book of the Ocean is precisely what its title promises. It contains a rather broad overview of all topics connected to the ocean, such a…
Birds in the Calendar
Delightful sketches of British wild birds - a bird for every month of the year from the pheasant in January to the robin in December. This c…
Squinty the Comical Pig
Squinty the Comical Pig invites listeners into a whimsical world where humor and adventure intertwine through the escapades of a delightfull…
A Little Brother to the Bear
William J. Long again introduces us to some of the Wood Folk and their stories of living based on his own observations in the woods. In this…
By Pond and River
In By Pond and River, another of Arabella Buckley's wonderful science books for children, she explains the habitats of ponds and rivers, exp…
Little Bear
Join a nameless little bear on a charming adventure as he embarks on a quest to find his identity. In a world where names are scarce, this d…
Birds of the Air
Arabella Buckley had a great love of nature and wished to impart that love to children. Birds of the Air will encourage children to observe …
The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat
The rats and the mice thought that Miss Kitty Cat was a terrible person. She was altogether too fond of hunting them. They agreed, however, …
Just So Stories
The Just So Stories generally have the theme of a particular animal being altered from an original form to its current form by the acts of h…
Just So Stories
These whimsical short stories offer fanciful answers to a dozen of childhood's favorite "why" and "how" questions. With …
The Jungle Book
This classic children's book by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Mowgli, a young boy raised by wolves: his escapades and adventures with h…
Sammie and Susie Littletail
Once upon a time there lived in a small house built underneath the ground two curious little folk, with their father, their mother, their un…
The Call of the Wild
Buck, a magnificent mix of St. Bernard and Scotch shepherd dog, rules contentedly at Judge Miller’s place in California’s Santa Clara Valley…