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