Andrews, Jane, The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children. Atkinson, Eleanor S., Greyfriars Bobby. Bertelli, Luigi, The Prince and His Ants. Brown, Dr. John, Rab and His Friends. Bullen, Frank, The Cruise of the Cachelot. Burgess, Thornton W., Old Mother West Wind Stories. Burroughs, John, Squirrels and Other Fur Bearers. Wake Robin. Chapman, William G., Green-Timber Trails: Wild Animal Stories of the Upper Fur Country. Ford, Sewell, Horses Nine. Hawkes, Clarence, Shaggycoat. Hudson, W. H., A Little Boy Lost. Jordan, David Starr, Science Sketches. Kellogg, Vernon L., Insect Stories. Nuova, the New Bee. Kingsley, Charles, Madame How and Lady Why. Kipling, Rudyard, Just-So Stories. The Jungle Book (Two Series). London, Jack, The Call of the Wild. Long, William J., Wood-Folk Comedies. A Little Brother to the Bear. Miller, Joaquin, True Bear Stories. Miller, Olive Thorne, The Children's Book of Birds. Mills, Enos A., Scotch. The Thousand Year Old Pine. Muir, John, Stickeen. Our National Parks. Ollivant, Alfred, Bob, Son of Battle. "Ouida" (Louisa de la RamÉe), Moufflou. The Dog of Flanders. Paine, Albert Bigelow, Hollow-Tree Nights and Days. Arkansaw Bear. Potter, Beatrix, Peter Rabbit. Benjamin Bunny. Roberts, Charles G. D., Kings in Exile. Children of the Wild. Saunders, Marshall, Beautiful Joe. SÈgur, Sophie, Comtesse de, The Story of a Donkey. Seton, Ernest Thompson, Wild Animals at Home. The Biography of a Grizzly. Sewell, Anna, Black Beauty. Sharp, Dallas Lore, Beyond the Pasture Bars. A Watcher in the Woods. Terhune, Albert Payson, Lad: A Dog. Thoreau, Henry David, A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers. Walton, Izaak, The Compleat Angler. White, Gilbert, The Natural History of Selborne. The three books that stand at the end of this brief list are probably not ones that any teacher would recommend indiscriminately to pupils of the grades. They are the greatest of the classic books in nature literature and, in a way, constitute the goal of nature lovers. |