Treasury of Animal Stories cover

Treasury of Animal Stories

by E. Louise Malley

How Saint Francis preached to the birds From the Navaho hunting song Song of the horse Tale of the gypsy horse / Donn Byrne Kerfol / Edith Wharton The wood duck / James Thurber The gift / John Steinbeck The conversion of St. Wilfrid / Rudyard Kipling Chanticleer and Pertelote / Chaucer Hey diddle, diddle, the cat / Eden Phillpotts [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) / Edgar Allan Poe How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix / Robert Browning The song of the falcon / Maxim Gorki The crocodile / Fiodor Dostoievski Makel-Adel / Ivan Turgeneff The oldest dog story in literature Æpyornis Island / H.G. Wells Whippetsnapper / Florence Healey The king of the cats / Stephen Vincent Benét Sredni Vashtar / Saki Argos / Homer Battling a sea monster / Victor Hugo Northwind / Herbert Ravenel Sass The witch hare / Walter de la Mare The knight and the greyhound / Walter de la Mare A sailor's yarn / John Masefield The squaw / Bram Stoker Riquet / Anatole France For my lady / Albert R. Wetjen The honk-honk breed / Stewart Edward White On cats / T.S. Eliot The backbreaker's bride / Henry Williamson A cat in the family / Winifred Williams Miss Holloway's goat / Luigi Pirandello A vendetta / Guy de Maupassant Mehitabel's extensive past / Don Marquis Madame Jolicœur's cat / Thomas A. Janvier Alice in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll The urban rat and the suburban rat / Guy Wetmore Carryl Blue-jays / Mark Twain The pope's mule / Alphonse Daudet The oracle of the dog / Gilbert K. Chesterton The wild goat's kid / Liam O'Flaherty Then the witch came / E. Louise Mally A passion in the desert / Honoré de Balzac A tent in agony / Stephen Crane For the love of a man / Jack London Kashtanka / Anton Chekhov A friendly rat / W.H. Hudson The stuff of dreams / Helen Dore Boylston Lady into fox / David Garnett The Rubáiyát of a persian kitten / Oliver Herford The capture of the great white whale / Herman Melville Rab and his friends / John Brown Mary / John Collier.

Chappie’s discussion starters

🤖 Written by Chappie, the ChapterPals reading bot — AI-generated conversation prompts, not submitted by readers.

  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?