The Red Book of Animal Stories

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books are a series of twenty-five collections of true and fictional stories for children, published between 1889 and 1913. The best known books of the series are the twelve collections of fairy tales, known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors. In all, the volumes feature 798 stories, besides the 153 poems in The Blue Poetry Book. The Red Book of Animal Stories contains forty-six stories about real and mythical animals. Some of them are simple accounts of how animals live in the wild. Others are stories about pets, or remarkable wild animals, or about hunting expeditions. Stories Included Within This Book: The Phoenix Griffins and Unicorns About Ants, Amphisb�nas, and Basilisks Dragons The Story of Beowulf, Grendel, and Grendel's Mother The Story of Beowulf and the Fire Drake A Fox Tale An Egyptian Snake Charmer An Adventure of G�rard, the Lion Hunter Pumas and Jaguars in South America Mathurin and Mathurine Joseph: Whose proper name was Josephine The Homes of the Vizcachas Guanacos: Living and Dying In the American Desert The Story of Jacko II 'Princess' The Lion and the Saint The Further Adventures of 'Tom,' a Bear, in Paris Recollections of a Lion Tamer Sheep Farming on the Border When the World was Young Bats and Vampires The Ugliest Beast in the World The Games of Orang-Outangs, and Kees the Baboon Greyhounds and their Masters The Great Father, and Snakes' Ways Elephant Shooting Hyenas and Children A Fight with a Hippopotamus Kanny, the Kangaroo Collies, or Sheep Dogs Two Big Dogs and a Little One Crocodile Stories Lion-Hunting and Lions On the Trail of a Man-eater Greyhounds and their Arab Masters The Life and Death of Pincher A Boar Hunt by Moonlight Thieving Dogs and Horses To the Memory of Squouncer How Tom the Bear was born a Frenchman Charley Fairy Rings; and the Fairies who make them How the Reindeer Live The Cow and the Crocodile