Chapter Book Lists

Animal Stories

All books are in the J Fiction section in order by the author’s last name, unless otherwise noted.

Dog Stories
Avi: The Good Dog
Byars: Wanted—Mud Blossom
Cleary: Ribsy
Cone: Mishmash
DiCamillo: Because of Winn-Dixie
Edwards: Santa Paws
Fine: Notso Hotso
Finney: I, Jack; Jack and Rebel the Police Dog
Gipson: Old Yeller
Griffith : Alex and the Cat
Harlow : Star in the Storm
Hobbs : Sheep
Kjelgaard: Big Red; Irish Red ; Outlaw Red
Knight: Lassie Come Home
London : The Call of the Wild; White Fang
Lowry: Stay!: Keeper’s Story
Matthews: A Dog For Life
McKay: Dog Friday
Naylor: Shiloh; Shiloh Season; Saving Shiloh
Nolan: On the Road; Smarter Than Squirrels
Paterson : The Field of the Dogs
Rawls: Where the Red Fern Grows
Rodowsky: Not My Dog
Smith: 101 Dalmatians
Staples: The Green Dog
Stolz: A Dog on Barkham Street
Taylor : The Trouble With Tuck
Terhune: Lad, a Dog
Tripp: Pete and Fremont
Velde: Smart Dog
Voigt: Stories About Rosie
Wallace: The Meanest Hound Around
White: Foxy’s Tale

Horse Stories
Bagnold: National Velvet
Bauer: Touch the Moon
Casanova: Stealing Thunder
Cooper: Sandmare
Davidson: Five True Horse Stories
Dillon: The Island of Horses
Farley: The Black Stallion; The Island Stallion; Man O’ War
Ghent : No Small Thing
Haas: Birthday Pony; Jigsaw Pony; Runaway Pony
Henry: Black Gold; Born to Trot; Justin Morgan Had a Horse; King of the Wind; Misty of Chincoteague
Herds: Herds of Thunder, Manes of Gold
Holmes: Heart of Fire; Rider in the Dark
James: Smoky the Cow Horse
Kinsey-Warnock: If Wishes Were Horses
Lawson: Mr. Revere and I
Nabb: The Enchanted Horse
O’Hara: My Friend Flicka
Sewell: Black Beauty
Snyder: Gib and the Gray Ghost
Wilson : I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade

Cat Stories
Alexander: The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man
Armstrong: Whittington
Bauer: Ghost Eye
Cleary: Socks
Coatsworth: The Cat Who Went to Heaven
Edwards: Little Bo
Estes: Pinky Pye
Fine: Diary of a Killer Cat; Return of the Killer Cat
King-Smith: Martin’s Mice
Naylor: The Grand Escape; The Healing of Texas; Jake Polo’s Mother
Nimmo: Delilah Alone
Said: Varjak Paw; The Outlaw Varjak Paw
Selden : Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse

Other Animal Stories
Avi: Ereth’s Birthday (Porcupine); Mayor of Central Park (Squirrel); Poppy (Mouse); Poppy and Rye (Mouse); Ragweed (Mouse)
Burgess: The Adventures of Buster Bear; The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat
Cazet: Minnie and Moo and the Seven Wonders of the World (Cows)
Chocolate: Pigs Can Fly!
Cleary: The Mouse and the Motorcycle; Ralph S. Mouse
Crocker: Tale of the Swamp Rat (Rat, Alligator)
DiCamillo: The Tiger Rising
Fleischman: A Carnival of Animals (Various)
George: Frightful’s Mountain (Falcon); Julie of the Wolves
Grahame: The Wind in the Willows (Toad, Mole, Badger)
Greene: Moose’s Big Idea
Howe: Bunnicula (Rabbit, Cat, Dog)
Hurwitz: Lexi’s Tale
King-Smith: Babe the Sheep Pig; Harry’s Mad (Bird); Three Terrible Trins (Mice)
Kipling: The Jungle Book (Panther, Bear, Wolves, Tiger)
Koller: Mole and Shrew All Year Through
Lawson: Ben and Me (Mouse); Rabbit Hill (Rabbits)
Maguire: Leaping Beauty (Various)
McAllister: Urchin of the Riding Stars (Squirrel)
McCartney: High in the Clouds (Squirrel)
Napoli : Prince in the Pond (Frog)
Nixon: Gus & Gertie and the Lucky Charms (Penguins)
O’Brien: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Mice, Rats, Crow)
Oxford : Oxford Book of Animal Stories
Pearce: The Little Gentleman (Mole)
Rylant: Thimbleberry Stories (Chipmunk, Owl, Snake, etc.)
Salten: Bambi (Deer)
Schlein: The Year of the Panda
Selden : The Cricket in Times Square (Cricket, Cat, Mouse)
Sharp: The Rescuers (Mice)
Steig: Abel’s Island (Mouse)
Titus: Basil of Baker Street (Mouse)
Van Leeuwen: The Great Cheese Conspiracy (Mice)
Wallace: Ferret in the Bedroom, Lizards in the Fridge (Various)
White: Charlotte ’s Web (Spider, Pig, Rat); Stuart Little (Mouse)
Wu: Rosa Farm (Farm animals)