Animals You Will Never Forget: 72 True Stories From The Reader's Digest

By Reader's Digest Association

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895770490
• ISBN13: 9780895770493
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.48 lbs.

Customer Reviews

True Treasure Trove for Teachers and Animal Lovers

Seventy-two true stories about animals gleaned from past issues of Reader's Digest, this book is a delightful treat for children and adult alike. As a young girl, when I first read these stories, they helped to raise me to a different level of awareness. "Savage Dog" impacted my view of life. To this day, I realize that kindness transcends language and is a form of communication. What a lesson this could be for children. Authors range from the everyday citizen to famous authors like Jean Craighead George, James Thurber and Farley Mowat. There are excerpts from books like Rascal, The Dog Who Wouldn't Be and the First Lady of the Seeing Eye (about Seeing Eye dogs). Then there is my personal favorite, A Runt of a Horse which taught me the power of love. The runt of a horse that people laughed at for being so small, but who won all his races and when his owners had to sell him due to health reasons, he lost the will to win and eventually died of a broken heart. To read the stories is like a stroll down memory lane. The Day I Met Midnight is written by Ulmont Healy, a cowboy turned cowboy actor during the silent film era. Doc Pete's Friend Charlie is set during a time when doctors carried their black medical bags and made house calls --driving to their patients' home with a horse and buggy. What a wonderful way to bring the past to life for kids. The Dog From No-Man's Land, a great story of loyal friendship and life during WWII and the old Soviet Bloc regime. As a public school teacher, I will be reading some of these stories in my elementary class as a springboard for discussion and to teach them how to ask questions, to think deeper -- to see beyond what is in front of them. The Day Grandfather Tickled a Tiger is a hilarious story of grandfather mistakenly believing a tiger to be his former pet, but is really a wild tiger makes great fodder for discussion. All in all, this is a book that has a collection of high interest stories that will keep kids and the kid in us reading.

If You Love Animals, A Book You'll Treasure

My uncle gave me this book when I was a kid. I still pull it out every now and then and read it. I think it's got to be the best collection of animal stories I've ever read. They are just very heartfelt, bittersweet, and written at a level that I think even most non-animal people can relate to. It's a very unusual book, and one of my favorites. From Ring of Bright Water to A Horse for Weezie to Blind Fair Ellen and a Horse Called Midnight... just little gems of stories that introduced me to a host of other writers. It would belong on any shelf of treasured books for the ages.

Animals I will never forget

"Richer than I you can never be/I had a mother who read to me" and that is true: my mother read to me every night as I was growing up. When I learned to read, she put me on Book of the Month clubs and this book was one of the books I received. I still read this book and still buy copies for friends who also know animals are angels on earth. I still cry even when I've read the story over and over...what would life be like without animals? Everyone should read this book!

The best true-animal-stories book ever.

Animals You Will Never Forget is a book of true animal stories that has a title that does not lie, either. I have often thought of those memorable stories I read or had read to me as a child. I have also often wondered what book that was from which those stories came. When I saw the book that my wife brought home from the library, I was overjoyed and began reliving those classic stories. The first story I read to my seven year old son, called Savage Dog, brought tears to my eyes, my son's eyes, and my wife's eyes, who was only listening in from across the room. It bodes well for the many stories we will enjoy together in the years ahead. I eagerly await my own copy, which is now out of print.