the book covers horse-breeding, training and racing.

    This reissue of his classic book of pony cartoons gives a reminder of the late master's peculiar genius.

    When his rheumatism isn't acting up, he's as frisky as any young colt. And he's certainly not ready for retirement. Charlie can tackle any tough job that comes his way. Unfortunately, Mr. Spinks, Charlie's owner, doesn't quite agree. So he makes Charlie take a permanent, though well-deserved, vacation. Poor Charlie is bored to death! But then Charlie discovers there is something he can do. Maybe retirement isn't so boring after all!?!

    From the first moment Derek, who was not until then a cat-lover, met a tiny bundle of fur with Jeannie, through to the pet's old age when he would still walk down to the stream to make 'Monty's Leap', this is a touching story of friendship between two people and their cat.

    Not so for Doreen and her husband Charles, who decide to take on a baby donkey to keep the nettles under control in the orchard. When Annabel clip-clops into their lives they realize that, from the ear-splitting nocturnal howling to the numerous escape attempts, living with a donkey won't be plain sailing. Annabel eats everything apart from the nettles, but eventually becomes a much-loved family member and particularly close to Solomon, the Siamese cat, who sleeps in her bed. Further dramas ensue when Henry, the jennet, is introduced as a companion to Annabel and love blossoms.

    With some of his friends. But Barney Beagle does not want stay there. He wants to live in a house with a boy. But all day long he waits for the right boy. All day long more kids come to adopt puppies. And all of his friends are going home with their person. One by one they go until its just Barney beagle & Spot the dalmation. They wait and wait forsome one to come. Closer to the end it ends up being only him and the dalmation. After spot the dalmation is gone, the pet shop owner is tired and wants to go home. Barney is very sad, because he did not get adopted, but wait someone is coming. Its a boy and he is here to adopt Barney. Barney is so very excited.And it seems that all the puppies were adopted.

    The kittens think that their names are "Two" and "Too Many". They get befriended by a black house cat who's owner is a witch making strange preparations for Halloween. What a wild night it will be for two kittens.

    The enchanting true story of Gavin Maxwell's life with the three otters he kept as pets, and the enormous changes they brought to his life.

    FROM THE BACK COVER Perhaps you would like to know how "A Topsy-Turvy Planet" came to be written. Well, it was this way: The launching of the first manned spaceship fired all our youngsters with the ambition to be astronauts. And who could blame them? There's such a thrill about the very words - stars, rockets, weightlessness. And the prospect of swimming in air as you do in water, even head down if you so please. And all the surprises sure to be waiting for you on those distant planets - all the extraordinary beasts, and birds, and plants, and landscapes, so different from all that we are accustomed to seeing here on Earth. But - I reflected - is not our own Earth rich in extraordinary beasts, and birds, and plants, and landscapes? And in the most amazing of adventures, too? Was it not here that Baron Munchausen and Tartarin of Tarascon performed their incredible exploits? And both Munchausen and Tartarin pale before my good friend Paramon, whose stories - and the name Paramon, I would have you know, means Firm and Reliable - whose stories are so fascinating that not even a ticket to the films, not even the most exciting of TV programmes can tear the youngsters away when he gets to talking. And so I decided to put some of these stories of Paramon's into a book, for all the youngsters to read; because I, too, like Paramon, am convinced that nowhere in creation can you find more beautiful, more amazing, more interesting a planet than our own Earth. Perhaps it is just that I have never visited outer space, not even in my dreams, that makes me feel that way about it. Or, perhaps, it is simply the deep love I bear to this Earth we live on, to its familiar - and unfamiliar - seas and mountains, forests and plains, birds and beasts. All the books I have written - fifteen of them - are devoted to Nature as we find her here on Earth. There's one about hunters after bird songs; another about mountain trails that lead no one knows where; a third about what you can see out of the corners of your eyes; a fourth about friendship among birds; a fifth about ten used cartridge cases and the memories each of them holds fresh for the hunter. You'll know these books if you come across them, for their titles reveal their content: "Hunting Bird Songs," "Nameless Trail," "Out of the Corners of Your Eyes," "Bird Friendship," and "Ten Used Cartridges." The remaining ten are of the same type. So much for my books. As to my own life story, there's no room left for that. Some other time, perhaps. N. SLADKOV

    in case he doesn’t do well, but the horse is a natural jumper and wins even when Dan has to ride with a broken arm.

    

    Life for twelve-year-old Annuzza was hard and often cruel with parents oblivious of any world beyond their farm. When Annuzza won a scholarship to the town high school she met with rebuffs from her heavy drinking father, her scoffing brother, sceptical mother, pessimistic Bunika, the grandmother. Only her lovely sister, Kuza, gave her encouragement but even Kuza warned her about leaving her own. Four years go by and the decision must be made -- to move into the glib world of the town (represented by wealthy friend Nadine and handsome Nelo) or to return to her home where she is needed and loved by her family and Marcel who wishes to marry her.

    That is, until his great-grandfather suggests not scare or hurt these creatures and see what happens.(A Rand McNally Junior Elf Book)

    Here is a comprehensive introduction to all twenty-two species of crocodilians.

    His mother was ill in England and he and his artist father were trying to keep house while Brett's father taught and Brett went to high school. He had promised to buy his mother a mixer but he had also told Mr. DeLuca, the junk man, that he would not only buy his broken-down horse but also his wagon! Needing money desperately made Brett a very busy boy. He sold old newspapers to the junk dealer, worked on a merry-go-round at Coney Island on Saturdays, and modeled for painters and advertisements where he worked at night. His main problem was where he would keep the horse when Mr. DeLuca sold it to him, a problem he neglected to mention to his father. Brett's adventures are fun, and he learns a lot about people and finds a new appreciation for his parents when they are reunited.

    

    A book about many of the world's most interesting wild animals, what they look like, where they live, how they hunt, what they eat, their intelligence and means of protection, why they behave in certain ways, and thier usefulness to man.