Richard Adams's Favorite Animal Stories

Richard Adams's Favorite Animal Stories is a collection of short stories and excerpts from longer works, both fiction and non-fiction. It was "first published in Great Britain in 1981 by Octopus Books Limited" and in the U.S.A. by Exeter Books. The latter printed a hardcover with the ISBN 0671092286.

Contents

• Introduction by Richard Adams
• The Cat That Walked by Himself by Rudyard Kipling
• Lobo, the King of Currumpaw by Ernest Thompson Seton
• Flip by Geoffrey Morgan
• Adopting an Anteater (from Encounters with Animals) by Gerald Durrell
• Koko the Thingumabob (from The Prince who Hiccupped) by Anthony Armstrong
• Enter Emma (from Emma and I) by Sheila Hocken
• The Rabbit's Ghost Story by Richard Adams (later printed in Tales from Watership Down)
• Tuppenny and the Travelling Circus (from The Fairy Caravan) by Beatrix Potter
• Mary (from The John Collier Reader) by John Collier
• Hijacking a television studio is not easy (from Animal Days) by Desmond Morris
• The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
• The Sounding of the Call (from The Call of the Wild) by Jack London
• Monty the Bull (from All things Bright and Beautiful) by James Herriot
• The Wonderful Tar Baby Story (from Uncle Remus) by Joel Chandler Harris
• The Volcano Rat (from Doctor Dolittle's Zoo) by Hugh Lofting
• The Wolves of Cernogratz by Saki
• Jumble (from Just William) by Richmal Crompton
• The First Release (from Born Free) by Joy Adamson
• (Excerpt from) Black Beauty by Anna Sewell