Hi, I’m looking for examples of wild animal characters in children’s literature for a project. I need only a passage from the book, but I’m running out of ideas. So far, I’ve found works by Kipling, C.S. Lewis, and Beagle. Can you help me?
by rosentauri
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Colin Dann’s [The Animals of Farthing Wood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animals_of_Farthing_Wood) (bunch of British woodland animals end up on an exodus looking for a promised land after their home woods are ripped up by human development). The TV show was a huge thing in the UK for most ’90s kids.
The [Redwall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwall) series by Brian Jacques – a bunch of fantasy novels set in a world populated by anthropomorphic woodland animals.
*Whitefang* and *Call of the Wild* by Jack London perhaps? I read them as a kid so I consider them children’s lit. And if going that way, possibly *Tarka the Otter* though I found it a bit too difficult when it was handed to a precocious 10 year old version of myself.
[‘The Animals of Farthing Wood’](https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-animals-of-farthing-wood/colin-dann/9781405281805) by Colin Dann is a classic 🙂
For something older, Henry Williamson wrote several wildlife novels, the most famous of which is [‘Tarka the Otter’](https://www.waterstones.com/book/tarka-the-otter/henry-williamson/annabel-large/9780141354958).
James Herriot books perhaps?
Where the Wild Things Are
Jack London: white fang. call of the wild is about wolves too, but the mc is a domestic dog who ends up among them.
watership down. it’s about rabbits.
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.
The Protector of the Small, or Wildmage series, both by Tamora Pierce (more YA than children’s books, is that all right?)
Silver Brumby books
Beatrix Potter!
Watership Down by Richard Adams