Andrew Lang

The Animal Story Book

Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform April 26, 2017) , 1 edition
Andrew Lang's Fairy Books are a series of twenty-five collections of true and fictional stories for children, published between 1889 and 1913. The best known books of the series are the twelve collections of fairy tales, known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors. In all, the volumes feature 798 stories, besides the 153 poems in The Blue Poetry Book.
The Animal Story Book contains sixty-five stories about animals. Some of them are simple accounts of how animals live in the wild. Others are stories about pets, or remarkable wild animals, or about hunting expeditions. Many are taken from Alexandre Dumas.
Stories Included Within This Book:
'Tom': an Adventure in the Life of a Bear in Paris
Saï the Panther
The Buzzard and the Priest
Cowper and his Hares
A Rat Tale
Snake Stories
What Elephants can Do
The Dog of Montargis
How a Beaver builds his House
The War Horse of Alexander
Stories about Bears
Stories about Ants
The Taming of an Otter
The Story of Androcles and the Lion
Monsieur Dumas and his Beasts
The Adventures of Pyramus
The Story of a Weasel
Stories about Wolves
Two Highland Dogs
Monkey Tricks and Sally at the Zoo
How the Cayman was killed
The Story of Fido
Beasts Besieged
Mr. Gully
Stories from Pliny
The Strange History of Cagnotte
Still Waters Run Deep; or, the Dancing Dog
Theo and his Horses: Jane, Betsy, and Blanche
Madame Théophile and the Parrot
The Battle of the Mullets and the Dolphins
Monkey Stories
Eccentric Bird Builders
The Ship of the Desert
Hame, hame, hame, where I fain wad be
Nests for Dinner
Fire-eating Djijam
The Story of the Dog Oscar
Dolphins at Play
The Starling of Segringen
Grateful Dogs
Gazelle
Cockatoo Stories
The Otter who was reared by a Cat
Stories about Lions
Builders and Weavers
More Faithful than Favoured
Dolphins, Turtles, and Cod
More about Elephants
Bungey
Lions and their Ways
The History of Jacko I
Signora and Lori
Of the Linnet, Popinjay, or Parrot, and other Birds that can Speak
Patch and the Chickens
The Fierce Falcon
Mr. Bolt, the Scotch Terrier
A Raven's Funeral
A Strange Tiger
Halcyons and their Biographers
The Story of a Frog
The Woodpecker Tapping on the Hollow Oak Tree
Dogs Over the Water
The Capocier and his Mate
Owls and Marmots
Eagles' Nests
Series
Andrew Lang's Fairy Books (Book 8)
ISBN
1545587965 / 9781545587966
Pages
140
Weight
15.0 oz.
Dimensions
8.5 x 0.3 in.

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