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FROM: "Waddell, Susan" <[removed]@ci.west-linn.or.us>
REC'D: 3/7/01, 6:20 PM

I have an adult patron looking for novels involving animals (not farm
animals, dogs or cats). White Puma and White Seal are examples of novels
she has enjoyed. Any ideas?

Susan Waddell
Assistant Library Director
West Linn Public Library
1595 Burns Street
West Linn, OR 97068
503.656.7853
503.656.2746 Fax

FROM: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <[removed]@mail.open.org>
REC'D: 3/7/01, 6:42 PM

Try Ewan Clarkson who has written many novels about wild animal life, and Vincent Canning has done a few, too (Flight of the Grey Goose comes to mind).

Robin Beerbower
Salem (OR) Public Library
[removed]@open.org

>>> "Waddell, Susan" <[removed]@ci.west-linn.or.us> 03/07 4:18 PM >>>
I have an adult patron looking for novels involving animals (not farm
animals, dogs or cats). White Puma and White Seal are examples of novels
she has enjoyed. Any ideas?

Susan Waddell
Assistant Library Director
West Linn Public Library
1595 Burns Street
West Linn, OR 97068
503.656.7853
503.656.2746 Fax

FROM: Sharon Weinberg <[removed]@nslsilus.org>
REC'D: 3/7/01, 7:25 PM

Hungry for Home:A Wolf Odyssey by Asta Bowen is a fictional account of a
real wolf's struggle to survive.

Sharon
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Waddell, Susan wrote:

> I have an adult patron looking for novels involving animals (not farm
> animals, dogs or cats). White Puma and White Seal are examples of novels
> she has enjoyed. Any ideas?
>
> Susan Waddell
> Assistant Library Director
> West Linn Public Library
> 1595 Burns Street
> West Linn, OR 97068
> 503.656.7853
> 503.656.2746 Fax
>
>
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FROM: "Marla" <[removed]@orion.mtgr.mtlib.org>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 9:42 AM

I know there are lots -- but these are the few that come to
immediate mind:

THE BEAR (originally titled THE GRIZZLY KING) by James
Curwood. Basis for popular movie quite a few years back.

WATERSHIP DOWN by R. Adams. Everyone probably has read
this rabbit classic -- "You're getting to be a rabbit with me" (-;

DUNCTON WOOD by Wm. Horwood. Similiar to the above only
alittle darker (no pun intended) about moles.

THE LOOP by Nicholas Evans. I hear this is good, but can't quite
bring myself to read it -- I hate to read about animals getting hurt.

BYE!

Marla/Great Falls Public Library/Acquisitions
301 2nd Ave N
Great Falls MT 59401-2593
[removed]@orion.mtgr.mtlib.org


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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 9:53 AM

"The Wolfling," by Sterling North, springs to mind, also his "Rascal." If
wild animals are wanted: Helen Hoover, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts.
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FROM: "Carol Kubala" <[removed]@columbiapl.libct.org>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 11:19 AM

This may be a bit of a stretch but many of Nevada Barr's National Park mysteries include
info about animals. Track of the Cat features mountain lions and most recently Blood Lure
tells much about grizzlies, etc.

Mind of a Raven if birds fit the bill and Red-tails in love about hawks. Both titles are
non-fiction however.

-
Carol Kubala
Adult Services Librarian
Saxton B. Little Free Library/Columbia, CT
860 228-0350 - voice
860 228-1569 - fax

"Waddell, Susan" wrote:

> I have an adult patron looking for novels involving animals (not farm
> animals, dogs or cats). White Puma and White Seal are examples of novels
> she has enjoyed. Any ideas?
>
> Susan Waddell
> Assistant Library Director
> West Linn Public Library
> 1595 Burns Street
> West Linn, OR 97068
> 503.656.7853
> 503.656.2746 Fax
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

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FROM: Sandy Westbrook <[removed]@crlc.org>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 11:40 AM

I know you specified fiction, but I would like to suggest Gerald Durrell's
books. Most are non-fiction but read like fiction. Durrell grew up
fascinated by animals and was always collecting them. He became a zoo
keeper who was (is?) very interested in wildlife conservation. His
adventures tracking down animals or living with them are interesting and
often humorous.

Sandy Westbrook
Adult Services Librarian
South Windsor Public Library
South Windsor, CT 06074
Ph 860-644-1541
e-mail [removed]@crlc.org


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>
>I have an adult patron looking for novels involving animals (not farm
>animals, dogs or cats). White Puma and White Seal are examples of novels
>she has enjoyed. Any ideas?
>
>Susan Waddell
>Assistant Library Director
>West Linn Public Library
>1595 Burns Street
>West Linn, OR 97068
>503.656.7853
>503.656.2746 Fax
>
>
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FROM: Anne Kabel <[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 1:26 PM

Try Red-Tails in Love - the story of hawks and other wildlife in Central
Park in NYC - also a very interesting look at birdwatchers!

Anne Kabel
Adult Reading Librarian
Baldwin Public Library
300 W. Merrill
P.O. Box 3002
Birmingham MI 48012-3002
248- 647-1700

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 2:08 PM

>From: "Mary Rindfleisch" <[removed]@biblio.org>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: RE: Adult fiction involving animals
>Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:46:45 -0500
>
>
>>Sterling North - The Yearling
>

Mary, how could a librarian make such a booboo? "The Yearling" is by
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
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FROM: "Marsha Valance" <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 2:08 PM

Joyce Stranger wrote a number of adult novels about animals, including "The Running Foxes" and "Breed of Giants".


Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 2:19 PM

>From: Sandy Westbrook <[removed]@crlc.org>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: RE: Adult fiction involving animals
>Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 12:19:50 -0500
>
>I know you specified fiction, but I would like to suggest Gerald Durrell's
>books. Most are non-fiction but read like fiction. Durrell grew up
>fascinated by animals and was always collecting them. He became a zoo
>keeper who was (is?) very interested in wildlife conservation. His
>adventures tracking down animals or living with them are interesting and
>often humorous.
>
>Sandy Westbrook

Second that, definitely. The first two, "The Overloaded Ark" and "The Bafut
Beagles," contain some of the funniest prose I have yet to read. "My Family
and Other Animals" is about his boyhood on Corfu, in which he Discovered his
Vocation; there are two or three other volumes set at the same period.
Anyone who loves animals should enjoy these.


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FROM: Mary Van Dyke <[removed]@CLSN3046.glenview.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 2:29 PM

another non-fiction that reads like exciting fiction is NEVER CRY WOLF by
Farley Mowat.

Mary Van Dyke
Glenview (IL) Public Library

FROM: "Mary Rindfleisch" <[removed]@biblio.org>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 3:08 PM

Thanks for catching that one! I meant, of course, _The Wolfling_. This was
on the line above _The Yearling_ in my RA notebook under "Animals" but I
didn't include the Rawlings because no farm animals were wanted...Whoops!

Mary Rindfleisch
Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
Ridgefield Library
472 Main St.
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: 203-438-2282
e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org

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Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 2:56 PM
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Subject: RE: Adult fiction involving animals

>From: "Mary Rindfleisch" <[removed]@biblio.org>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: RE: Adult fiction involving animals
>Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:46:45 -0500
>
>
>>Sterling North - The Yearling
>

Mary, how could a librarian make such a booboo? "The Yearling" is by
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
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FROM: Peggy Hadid <[removed]@multcolib.org>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 8:38 PM

Don't think I've seen this one mentioned yet.

Gowdy, Barbara, _The white bone_

"From the enormously gifted Gowdy (Mister Sandman, 1997, etc.), a
mesmerizing journey into the heart of Africa and a maternal society of elephants
slipping rapidly into extinction." _Kirkus Reviews_, quoted on Amazon.com

Peggy Hadid Library Assistant, Central
Multnomah County Library 801 SW 10th, Portland, OR 97205
[removed]@multcolib.org (503) 988-5471

FROM: Wanda Berry <[removed]@pelican.state.lib.la.us>
REC'D: 3/13/01, 3:42 PM

One of the best of all times that I enjoyed was Watership Down. It was all
about a world of rabbits. I believe Adams was the author.

I hope this helps!

Wanda

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