Wild at heart
Subtitle: animal stories
By: chosen by Michael Morpurgo
Publisher: Kingfisher
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780753462447
Subjects: Animals; Children's stories, American; Juvenile fiction; Children's stories, English; Short stories; Fiction
Description: 21 imaginative animal stories by such remarkable authors as Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, and John Steinbeck.
Table of contents: title: The birds began to sing  -- Janet Frame; title: The snow goose (an excerpt)  -- Paul Gallico; title: The happy prince  -- Oscar Wilde; title: Kes (an excerpt)  -- Barry Hines; title: The wedge-tailed eagle  -- Geoffrey Dutton; title: Godhanger (an excerpt)  -- Dick King-Smith; title: Charlotte's web (an excerpt)  -- E.B. White; title: Tarka the otter (an excerpt)  -- Henry Williamson; title: The old man and the sea (an excerpt)  -- Ernest Hemingway; title: The iron woman (an excerpt)  -- Ted Hughes; title: Noah's ark  -- The King James Bible (Genesis 6-8); title: The voyage of the Beagle (an excerpt)  -- Charles Darwin; title: Wolf brother  -- Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance; title: Son-Son fetches the mule  -- James Berry; title: He was a good lion  -- Beryl Markham; title: The call of the wild  -- Jack London; title: The red pony (an excerpt)  -- John Steinbeck; title: Waiting for Anya (an excerpt)  -- Michael Morpurgo; title: Androcles and the lion  -- retold by Andrew Lang; title: The tiger, the Brahman, and the jackal  -- retold by Joseph Jacobs; title: The cat that walked by himself -- Rudyard Kipling.