Full name: The House in the Water: A Book of Animal Stories

Author: Charles G. D. Roberts Year: 1908 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Animals Purchase/reserch links: ManyBooks Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781979056205 197905620X

A collection of several classical animal stories for children and adults. The stories express the beauty and essence of wild life and nature. Excerpt: [...] Upon the moonlit stillness came suddenly a far-off, muffled, crashing sound. Just once it came, then once again the stillness of the wilderness night, the stillness of vast, untraversed solitude. The Boy lifted his eyes and glanced across the thin reek of the camp-fire at Jabe Smith, who sat smoking contemplatively. Answering the glance, the woodsman muttered "old tree fallin'," and resumed his passive contemplation of the sticks glowing keenly in the fire. The Boy, upon whom, as soon as he entered the wilderness, the taciturnity of the woodsfolk descended as a garment, said nothing, but scanned his companion's gaunt face with a gravely incredulous smile. [...] Similar books: The Call of the Wild by Jack London The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate Until Tuesday by Luis Carlos Montalvan The Sibley Guide To Birds by David Allen Sibley Merle's Door by Ted Kerasote Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann The Eighty-Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts Homer by Gwen Cooper Cesar's Way by Cesar Millan Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper The Lost Dogs by Jim Gorant Amazing Gracie by Dan Dye On Talking Terms With Dogs: Calming Signals by Turid Rugaas A Wolf Called Romeo by Nick Jans Zak George's Dog Training Revolution by Zak George The Divinity of Dogs by Jennifer Skiff Yellowfang's Secret by Erin Hunter James Herriot's Dog Stories by James Herriot