Animal story books

[girlblogzone]

I recently bought a lot of books by W. Bruce Cameron, I also have "Marley and Me" by John Grogan and "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein. I really want to buy the books "The Plague Dogs" and "The Call of the Wild" because I saw the movies, and I really liked them. These are all books about dogs and i love dog books!! they are one of my favorite animals

I wanted to know, do you guys have any animal fiction books you recommend? I'm looking also for horse novels, but any animal book is good if you have ones to recommend!! 

[haumeaGeth]

The Silverwing Saga by Kenneth Oppel is very near and dear to my heart. I haven't reread many books, but I think I've read that trilogy at least three times now, and I've actually been longing to pick it up again recently <3

[girlblogzone]

The Silverwing Saga by Kenneth Oppel is very near and dear to my heart. I haven't reread many books, but I think I've read that trilogy at least three times now, and I've actually been longing to pick it up again recently <3

I just looked it up and OMG it seems so unique, I never heard of a series about bats!! I will definitely add these to my reading list

[Myrmeform]

I love animal books, more specifically I love when it's xenofiction, from the perspective of the animals themselves. I need to read more of them, I haven't read very many at all.

My fave when I was a kid was Child of the Wolves by Elizabeth Hall. It's about a husky puppy named Granite that gets lost and is adopted by a wolf mom, and then has to try to learn to be a wolf.

[girlblogzone]

I love animal books, more specifically I love when it's xenofiction, from the perspective of the animals themselves. I need to read more of them, I haven't read very many at all.

My fave when I was a kid was Child of the Wolves by Elizabeth Hall. It's about a husky puppy named Granite that gets lost and is adopted by a wolf mom, and then has to try to learn to be a wolf.

YES i love it when it's written from the perspective of the animal!! Also I will definitely check out Child of the Wolves that sounds like a really cute book, that reminds me of the story of The Call of the Wild, the dog in this book also joins a wolf pack

[wolfkitty42]

I've never read these books, so I'm guessing my recommendations will be a bit different...

Guardians of Ga'Hoole by Katheryn Lasky
- A fantasy story about owls. It's a bit similar to Warrior Cats, and also probably Redwall, although I did not read much of the latter so take that with a grain of salt. It's pretty dang good! When I was younger, I loved how scary the situation in the first book was. It was one of the only books I had read that really resonated with me in that way. I felt like the book understood how terrifying being a child is, and I really loved that part of the books. Guardians of Ga'Hoole is a children's book, but if you are more sensitive I would still recommend looking up a list of content warnings. Off the top of my head,

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Violence, Cults, Eugenics, Cannibalism, Kidnapping, Indoctrination, Animal Death* (Not sure if it counts since they're all animals, but there is a lot of death in this book, and prey animals also die), Parent Death, Child Abuse, Swearing* (Replaced with fantasy child-friendly swear words), Slavery

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[/font][/color] That's all I can remember, but there's just a Lot in general. There's also a movie. It's good on its own, but the book is better and more complex.
Wolves of the Beyond (Also by Katheryn Lasky!)
A spinoff of Ga'Hoole that explores the wolves and their lives in the same universe. These books are definitely a similarly wild read, albeit in a different way? Ga'Hoole follows the owls sort of as a group, but WOTB really feels like it's following the protagonist for his entire story.

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The content warnings are mainly the same as Ga'Hoole. Additional ones include Birth, Child Abandonment, Abuse, Neglect, Ableism, Cultural Appropriation

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A Wolf Called Wander by Rosanne Perry
The writing style is very lovely. It feels simple and disjointed in a way that really gets me feeling that wolfbrainyness! I love the descriptive language.

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Violence, Parental Death, I cannot remember much

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The author also has books with orcas and horses, iirc! It's pretty fun.

[haumeaGeth]

Guardians of Ga'Hoole by Katheryn Lasky
- A fantasy story about owls. It's a bit similar to Warrior Cats, and also probably Redwall, although I did not read much of the latter so take that with a grain of salt. It's pretty dang good! When I was younger, I loved how scary the situation in the first book was. It was one of the only books I had read that really resonated with me in that way. I felt like the book understood how terrifying being a child is, and I really loved that part of the books. Guardians of Ga'Hoole is a children's book, but if you are more sensitive I would still recommend looking up a list of content warnings. Off the top of my head,

I would also add 'slavery' to that list of content warnings. The series got a lot of criticism for the very unsubtle parallel between the nest maid snakes and actual slavery in history, and how it promotes said slavery by describing how the snakes "like it" and think it's "noble", which is an actual pro-slavery argument that was used historically as well. I tried reading the series recently because I loved the movie as a kid, but the repeated way the nest maids were talked about (sometimes entirely unprompted) turned me off to the books pretty hard...

(Mind you, I don't know if this was actually meant to be a theme that the author breaks down over the course of the series and if she just presented it in a rather untactful manner in the first two books. I didn't get any further than that, so feel free to correct me if that's the case. I just personally found it prominent enough that it bothered me a fair bit, especially in a children's book.)

[wolfkitty42]

I would also add 'slavery' to that list of content warnings. The series got a lot of criticism for the very unsubtle parallel between the nest maid snakes and actual slavery in history, and how it promotes said slavery by describing how the snakes "like it" and think it's "noble", which is an actual pro-slavery argument that was used historically as well. I tried reading the series recently because I loved the movie as a kid, but the repeated way the nest maids were talked about (sometimes entirely unprompted) turned me off to the books pretty hard...

(Mind you, I don't know if this was actually meant to be a theme that the author breaks down over the course of the series and if she just presented it in a rather untactful manner in the first two books. I didn't get any further than that, so feel free to correct me if that's the case. I just personally found it prominent enough that it bothered me a fair bit, especially in a children's book.)

Oh. I honestly never thought about this before you mentioned it. I think as a kid I just didn't really notice it... Which, yeah, makes me agree that it's definitely a weird theme to have in a children's book!

At least from what I remember, the nestmaid snakes were never super explored? There was some interesting stuff in the later books with other groups of snakes living and fighting in battles with owls, but I don't really remember much. I'll go back and add slavery to the content warnings. Thanks for mentioning!