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Blitz, the Story of a Horse may qualify as well.
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach.
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The Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl.
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11-13-2014, 05:20 PM | #49 |
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Ack-Ack Macaque and the sequel Hive Monkey by Gareth Powell?
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11-22-2014, 06:02 AM | #50 |
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The Heart of a Dog, by Mikhail Bulgakov, might qualify (or might not, as the dog is involved in a strange experiment!) (published 1925) -
"A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance. An absurd and superbly comic story, this classic novel can also be read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution." |
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The Bees by Laline Paull.
I just finished this book and am simply blown away. It is the closest book I have read to Watership Down - with shades of The Handmaid's Tale and Hunger Games. It is told through the eyes of Flora717 a lowly "sanitation bee", and how she serves within the different caste systems of the hive - including the inner sanctum of the Queen Bee. It is a dark read with social implications. As one Amazon reviewer says: "The story does for bees and religion, 'group think' and society roles what Animal Farm did for barnyard animals and government". |
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Three Wise Cats is a Christmas story wherein three young cats are sent out on a quest and eventually join the three wise men on their journey to find the messiah.
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12-24-2014, 04:09 AM | #54 |
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Thanks, I wasn't aware of that Sherlock Holmes story, and have just looked it up and read the beginning. Fascinating stuff! http://www.depauw.edu/humanimalia/issue01/fudge.html Also found that online journal, on Humanimalia, with an essay which makes the connection between "Heart of a Dog" and Conan Doyle's "The Creeping Man". |
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