Kids: Animal stories

This list is full of animal stories. If you like books featuring adventurous animals or books about humans and animals working together there will be something for you here.

Updated July 28, 2025
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The velveteen rabbit, or, How toys become real
Bianco, Margery Williams,
Paper Book
A treasured classic, revisited for a new generation in a gorgeous hardback gift edition.
Esio Trot (Colour Edition)
Blake, Quentin
Paper Book
High up in a tall building lives Mr Hoppy all alone. Downstairs lives Mrs Silver. Mr Hoppy loves her. And Mrs Silver loves her tortoise, Alfie. Oh, if only Mr Hoppy could perform some great feat that would make him a hero in her eyes! Then one day his mind goes click and an amazing idea...
Mirror magic
Chapman, Linda
Ebook
Fantastic Mr Fox
Dahl, Roald.
Paper Book
Boggis is an enormously fat chicken farmer who only eats boiled chickens smothered in fat. Bunce is a duck-and-goose farmer whose dinner gives him a beastly temper. Bean is a turkey-and-apple farmer who only drinks gallons of strong cider. Mr Fox is so clever that every evening he...
The tale of Despereaux : being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread
DiCamillo, Kate
Ebook
A brave mouse, a covetous rat, a wishful serving girl, and a princess named Pea come together in Kate DiCamillo's Newbery Medal-winning tale. Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story...
Hotdog!
Do, Anh
Paper Book
Meet Hotdog, the sausage dog, and his friends! Theres Kev, the goofy cat, whos always dressed up in some silly costume, and Lizzie, the gutsy lizard, who eats bug burgers for breakfast! Together theyre going on a mad adventure to help a baby bird find its missing mum! Hotdog and his friends will go...
The wind in the willows
Grahame, Kenneth
Paper Book
This beautiful HarperCollins Children's Classics edition is perfect for every bookshelf. Mole has had enough of spring-cleaning, thank you very much. He crawls outside his comfortable home, pops into the sunlight and beholds the strangest and newest of things - a river! - and, sitting...
Hoot
Hiaasen, Carl.
Ebook
Redwall
Jacques, Brian
Paper Book
Redwall Abbey, tranquil home to a community of peace-loving mice, is threatened by the evil, one-eyed rat warlord Cluny the Scourge and his battle-hardened horde of predators. Cluny is certain that Redwall will fall easily to his fearsome army but he hasn't bargained for the courage and...
Mrs Frisby and the rats of Nimh
O'Brien, Robert C.
Paper Book
They are not like other rats. They work at night, in secret . . . Time is running out for Mrs Frisby. She must move her family of mice before the farmer destroys their home. But her youngest son, Timothy, is too ill to survive the move. Help comes in the unexpected...
Pax
Pennypacker, Sara
Audiobook
A moving story of the extraordinary friendship between a boy and his fox, and their epic journey to be reunited. Pax was only a kit when his family was killed and he was rescued by 'his boy', Peter. Now the country is at war and when his father enlists, Peter has no choice but to move in...
Charlotte's web
White, E.B.; Williams, Garth
Paper Book
Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunningly beautiful hardback editions of the most famous stories in the world, now including a beautiful 70th anniversary edition of Charlotte's Web, the poignant, humorous story of a pig, a spider and a little girl. This is the story of a little...

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