Hello! IM looking for a book about animals, but I would be interested in two different kinds.
1. I would love a book similar to Lad a Dog or Lassie Come Home, where the animal doesn’t speak, and the story is told through the narration.
2. A book about animals where they do talk, and have their own world (Like Tailchaser’s song or Warrior Cats)
Thank you so much!!
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The most obvious answer is The Call of the Wild
non-talking: horses by Jane Smiley if you’re up for a big, multi-layered narrative.
talking: the jungle book and the second jungle book by Rudyard Kipling.
“Shiloh” by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Edit to add: “Babe” by Dick King-Smith and “Charlottes Web” by E. B. Whit.
1) Timbuktu by Paul Auster
2) Watership Down by Richard Adams
Animal Farm
Have you ever read The Incredible Journey? Unlike the 1993 movie based on it, the animals do not speak. A cat and two dogs are separated from their family and must travel across the country to locate them. I enjoyed it in my tween years, but the writing stands up enough that it is entertaining for an adult as well.
Also, Watership Down by Richard Adams. That one is an adult book about a group of rabbits, who talk among themselves & to other animals, but it is also subtle social commentary.
Another book about talking animals that is *not so* subtle social commentary, is Animal Farm by George Orwell. If you have not read it, you really should. It’s a classic & one of my all time favorites.