Animals and Nature

A Child's Book of the Garden: The Things in Our Garden

2018-11-28T08:00:00+00:00

This book is part of the author’s "Nature Books for Children" series (three books). The book is fun and charming, even for adults.

Freckles

2018-11-27T21:25:29+00:00

Freckles is a young man who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage. His one dream is to find a job, a place to belong and people who accept him despite his youth and the disability of having only one hand. He finds this place in the Limberlost Swamp, as a Limberlost guard of precious timber.

Secrets of the Woods

2018-11-27T20:30:47+00:00

Containing many details of the lives of animals that you may never have known of before, these wilderness stories are great listening for young and old.

Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble

2018-11-27T18:35:16+00:00

The Wibblewobble family of ducks appears in a series of 31 bedtime stories - one for each day of the month. Each story is an adventure featuring the ducks and their neighbors, including Uncle Wiggily Longears, the famous old gentleman rabbit with rheumatism.

Beautiful Joe

2018-11-27T16:25:44+00:00

Beautiful Joe is a real dog, and "Beautiful Joe" is his real name. He belonged during the first part of his life to a cruel master, who mutilated him in the manner described in the story. He was rescued from him, and now lives in a happy home with pleasant surroundings, and enjoys a wide local celebrity.

South American Jungle

2018-11-27T08:00:00+00:00

The stories in South American Jungle Tales center on the relationships between people and the different creatures Quiroga met on his farm in Misiones, a region of jungle in Uruguay along the banks of the Upper Parana River. Each story quickly evolves into a fantastical realm where the various animals take on familiar human characteristics. These stories, of course, are a metaphor for how man interacts with nature. They show how human beings are an integral part of a greater ecosystem; and can either chose to exploit it to his detriment, or to live in harmony within it.

True Bear Stories

2018-11-27T08:00:00+00:00

The author, Joaquin Miller prefer true stories to made-up ones. He defends bears which he thinks have gotten an undeserved bad reputation from the general public. This book strives to pass on a respect for the variety and wisdom in the lives of real bears.

Pond and Stream

2018-11-26T08:00:00+00:00

This book is part of the author’s "Nature Books for Children" series (three books). The book is fun and charming, even for adults, about the things that are jolly and wet: streams, and ponds, and ditches, and all the things that swim and wriggle in them.

Stories of Animal Sagacity

2018-11-26T08:00:00+00:00

Over 300 short stories of how smart and savvy various animals seem to be, and in most cases a little moral is drawn from the story.

Stories of Birds

2018-11-26T08:00:00+00:00

A wonderful book with illustrations, which contains stories, poems, myths, and facts about lots of different birds, intended for teaching children. It is divided into nine parts, each covering a different type of bird.

The Child's Book of the Seasons

2018-11-26T08:00:00+00:00

This book is part of the author’s "Nature Books for Children" series (three books). “When we think of sowing seeds we think of Spring with the new corn green on the red ground, and when we think of Spring we think of Summer, when it is tall and wavy in the wind, and when we think of Summer we think of Autumn when the corn is golden and cut, and then, why, then we come to Winter again.” - Author's quote

The Song of the Cardinal

2018-11-26T08:00:00+00:00

The Song of the Cardinal is about a big male Cardinal who lives in a tree near a farmer and his wife. The Cardinal immediately starts to sing to find himself a mate. Meanwhile the farmer and his wife enjoy watching this boisterous bird and seeing what he does. His singing and finding a mate rejuvenate the farmer and his wife's marriage.

The Wind in the Willows

2018-11-26T08:00:00+00:00

This much-loved story follows a group of animal friends in the English countryside as they pursue adventure … and as adventure pursues them! The chief characters - Mole, Rat, and Toad - generally lead upbeat and happy lives, but their tales are leavened with moments of terror, homesickness, awe, madcap antics, and derring-do.