Animal stories

Contents: The birds began to sing / Janet Frame -- The snow goose (extract) / Paul Gallico -- The happy prince / Oscar Wilde -- Kes (extract) / Barry Hines -- The wedge-tailed eagle / Geoffrey Dutton -- Godhanger (extract) / Dick King-Smith -- Charlotte's web (extract) / E. B. White -- Tarka the otter (extract) / Henry Williamson -- The old man and the sea (extract) / Ernest Hemingway -- The iron woman (extract) / Ted Hughes -- Noah's ark / The King James Bible -- The voage of the beagle (extract) / Charles Darwin -- Wolf brother / Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance -- Son-son fetches the mule / James Berry -- He was a good lion / Beryl Markham -- The call of the wild (extract) / Jack London -- The red pony (extract) / John Steinbeck -- Waiting for Anya (extract) / Michael Morpungo -- Androcles and the lion / retold by Andrew Lang -- The tiger, the brahman, and the jackal / retold by Joseph Jacobs -- The cat that walked by himself / Rudyard Kipling.