The Jungle Book

A horse narrates his own life, from an easy meadow to the London cab ranks. Written to change how people treated working animals, and it did.

Anna Sewell

Buck is stolen from a California ranch and sold into a Yukon sled team, where the rules are older and simpler. Short, fast and often a reader's first serious novel.

Jack London

Mole, Rat and Badger keep trying to save Toad from his own enthusiasms. A riverbank novel that alternates comedy with some of the quietest chapters in children's fiction.

Kenneth Grahame

The bear of very little brain, the honey, the heffalump trap and the flood. Milne's original 1926 chapters, illustrated, exactly as they first appeared.

A. A. Milne

A country doctor learns animal language from his parrot and sails to Africa to treat a sick monkey colony. The first book in the series, complete.

Hugh Lofting