The Red book of animal stories
By: selected and edited by Andrew Lang ; with numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Company
Published: 1899
Place of publication: London; New York; Bombay
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
Copyright date: 1899
Subjects: Animals; Juvenile fiction; Children's stories
Notes: Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
Table of contents: title: The phœnix; title: Griffins and unicorns; title: About ants, amphisbænas, and basilisks; title: Dragons; title: The story of Beowulf, Grendel, and Grendel's mother; title: The story of Beowulf and the fire drake; title: A fox tale; title: An Egyptian snake charmer; title: A adventure of Gérard, the lion hunter; title: Pumas and jaguars in South America; title: Mathurin and Mathurine; title: Joseph: whose proper name was Josephine; title: The homes of the Vizcachas; title: Guanacos: living and dying; title: In the American desert; title: The story of Jacko II; title: Princess; title: The lion and the saint; title: The further adventures of Tom, a bear in Paris; title: Recollections of a lion tamer; title: Sheep farming on the border; title: When the world was young; title: Bats and vampires; title: The ugliest beast in the world; title: The games of orang-outangs, and Kees the baboon; title: Greyhounds and their masters; title: The great father and snakes' ways; title: Elephant shooting; title: Hyenas and children; title: A fight with a hippopotamus; title: Kanny, the kangaroo; title: Collies, or sheep dogs; title: Two big dogs and a little one; title: Crocodile stories; title: Lion-hunting and lions; title: On the trail of a man-eater; title: Greyhounds and their Arab masters; title: The life and death of a pincher; title: A bear hunt by moonlight; title: Thieving dogs and horses; title: To the memory of a squoncer; title: How Tom the bear was born a Frenchman; title: Charley; title: Fairy rings; and the fairies who make them; title: How the reindeer live; title: The cow and the crocodile.