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The gift of the deer

Helen Hoover

1966

The flight of dragons

Peter Dickinson

1979 ★ 4.0

Gray Dawn

Albert Payson Terhune

2002

Pussy Willow

Margaret Wise Brown

1979

Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume I - 1966

Jürgen Thorwald, Reader's Digest Association, Donlon, Roger H. C. et al.

1965

Horton Hatches the Egg

Dr. Seuss

1962 ★ 4.0

Black Beauty

Mrs. J. C. Gorham , Anna Sewell

1877 ★ 4.6

The winding lane

Derek Tangye

1978

The last eagle

Daniel P. Mannix

1966

Lassie Come-Home

Eric Knight

1940 ★ 3.5

How the rhinoceros got his skin

Rudyard Kipling

1974

Stickeen

John Reid Muir

1909

Flush

Virginia Woolf, Eileen Atkins, Katyuli Lloyd et al.

1933 ★ 3.2

Shamrock Queen

Marguerite Henry

1947

A Dog of Flanders

Ouida

1890

How to live with a calculating cat

Eric Gurney

1962

Pippa's challenge

Joy Adamson

1972

Crictor

Tomi Ungerer

1958 ★ 4.7

My dogs in the Northland

Egerton R. Young

1902

Xi you ji

Chʻeng-en Wu, Eleanor Hazard, Wu Cheng'en et al.

1942

King of the grizzlies

Ernest Thompson Seton

1970

Rascal

Sterling North

1963 ★ 4.0

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be

Farley Mowat

1980 ★ 2.8

Bob, son of Battle

Alfred Ollivant

1898

A Whale for the Killing

Farley Mowat

1972

The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1960 ★ 3.8

Misty of Chincoteague

Marguerite Henry

1947

Michael Bond's book of bears

Michael Bond

1992

Blitz

Hetty Burlingame Beatty

1966

Tarka the Otter

Henry Williamson

1937

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Legends and stories

The gift of the deer

The flight of dragons

Gray Dawn

Pussy Willow

Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume I - 1966

Horton Hatches the Egg

Black Beauty

The winding lane

The last eagle

Lassie Come-Home

How the rhinoceros got his skin

Stickeen

Flush

Shamrock Queen

A Dog of Flanders

How to live with a calculating cat

Pippa's challenge

Crictor

My dogs in the Northland

Xi you ji

King of the grizzlies

Rascal

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be

Bob, son of Battle

A Whale for the Killing

The Yearling

Misty of Chincoteague

Michael Bond's book of bears

Blitz

Tarka the Otter

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