Favorite Animal Fiction

elahrairah: Quite simply the best novel ever written from the POV of animals. It takes less than a couple of chapters for the brain to forget that these are rabbits, it creates a believable world and cosmology without being didactic or breaking the fourth wall. This is a children's book that is really an adult's book, but is suitable for children! The themes, oh the themes! Man's inhumanity, the archetypal epic journey throgh dark places to salvation, a sensitive critique of authoritarianism (woundwort isn't just a baddy, he has good reasons for what he does), anti-elitism, strength through plurality etc etc. Truly a great work.

knerd.knitter: I love Eeyore.

waltzmn: Also worth checking are Robert Henryson's versions of the fables, particularly "The Cock and the Jasp" and "The Two Mice" (The City Mouse and the Country Mouse); Henryson has improved the presentation of both tales -- at least if you can read Middle English/Middle Scots.

belleek: Grew up outside Boston and just a story I loved so much as a child. And we could visit the places where it took place

elahrairah: I haven't read White Fang but partner reckons that its the best animal novel ever and needs more love.

abbottthomas: Don't forget the fox!

cad_lib: Story of an Irish Setter - stayed with me for over 40 years. Eventually owned & was owned by 2 most wonderful English Setters, but it started from the Red ones.

Aquila: Spiders on a terraformed planet undergo an intelligence revolution.

susanbooks: Though the subtitle is "a Biography," this is a wonderful work of fiction, meant as a gentle tease to Lytton Strachey who had just become a biographer himself.

Matke : Not fiction

vwinsloe : not fiction