The Wonder Tails

The Wonder Tails is a collection of 10 short funny illustrated stories for 6-8 year olds, about how certain iconic and beloved British wild animals came to be as they are. The main characters are all rebels, outsiders or underdogs - like vegetarian Basil Fox, Lavinia the antisocial Starling, or Brocker the chunky Badger who longs to dance like a Strictly star. But each tale celebrates cheerful and positive diversity, offers comforting life lessons, affirms its fine to want different things from your friends, and suggests that the best way to be happy is to just - go be yourself! Meet: The Bird Who Rode the Comet's Tail Bog Brush Billy The Resolute Robin The Dancing Badger of Beacon Hill A Vegetarian in the Henhouse The Very Hopeful Caterpillar The Day of the Dormouse Bella the Barn Owl & the Lido of Lu-urrve Nutters Gift The Squirrel & the Star child Set in iconic locations around Britain like Hadrian's Wall, Sherwood Forest and Brighton Pier, The Tails have eccentric, endearing characters for children to fall in love with; fighting battles they can relate to, in circumstances they can identify with. Feeling different, confronting bullies, believing in yourself, growing up in a single-parent family - the Tail's animals rise to challenges often facing today with courage, exuberance and optimism.

Text and photographs introduce a North American forest animal, the whitetail deer.

From legendary editor Ellen Datlow, Tails of Wonder collects the best of the last thirty years of science fiction and fantasy stories about cats.

Darby O'Doul, friend to all animals - wild and domestic, big and small - has a penchant for adventure and food. Darby does heroic deeds - rescuing many of his animal friends from dangerous situations; but his love of food puts him in harms way on several occasions by eating food meant for the wild animals and creating a life-long war with a large black Minnesota timberwolf, Warrior. Walk with Darby and his ever-faithful companion, Larry, while they trek through the north woods of Minnesota, through the seasons, over 13-years, in search of adventure and any little tasty morsel of food they can get their 'paws/hands' on. All proceeds from "Darby the Wonder Dog" will go to the charitable foundation, Southside Family Nurturing Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

What is it about the cat that captivates the creative imagination? No other creature has inspired so many authors to take pen to page. From legendary editor Ellen Datlow comes Tails of Wonder and Imagination, showcasing tales of science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and horror by some of today's most popular authors. With stories by Stephen King, Carol Emshwiller, Tanith Lee, Peter S. Beagle, Elizabeth Hand, Dennis Danvers, Theodora Goss, Susanna Clarke, Neil Gaiman, Kelly Link, George R. R. Martin, Lucius Shepard, Joyce Carol Oates, Graham Joyce, Catherynne M. Valente, Michael Marshall Smith, and many others. Tails of Wonder and Imagination features more than forty stories in which cats are heroes and stories in which they’re villains; tales of domestic cats, tigers, lions, mythical part-cat beings, people transformed into cats, cats transformed into people. And yes, even a few cute cats.

An expository science text about animals which have tails and claws. Suggested level: junior.