Animal characters are fascinating to readers.
Animals in books encourage sympathy.
Animal books educate while they entertain.
Click on a category below for titles young readers will love. Find titles in the library's catalog and put them on hold.
Chicken Squad series by Doreen Cronin
Magic Bunny, Magic Kitten, Magic Ponies, and Magic Puppy series by Sue Bentley
Mercy Watson series by Kate DiCamillo
Owl Diaries series by Rebecca Elliott
Princess Cora and the Crocodile by Laura Amy Schlitz
Pug Blasts Off by Kyla May
Pug's Snow Day by Kyla May
Stinky Spike the Pirate Dog by Peter Meisel
Stinky Spike and the Royal Rescue by Peter Meisel
Bad Kitty series by Nick Bruel
Claude series by Alex T. Smith
Escape from Baxters' Barn by Rebecca Bond
Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
Real Pigeons Fight Crime by Andrew McDonald
Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
Dirt by Denise Gosliner Orenstein
A Dog's Way Home by Bobbie Pyron
Gooseberry Park by Cynthia Rylant
How to Speak Dolphin by Ginny Rorby
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Poppy by Avi
Shiloh by Phyllis Naylor
The Very, Very Far North by Dan Bar-El
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
A Wolf Called Wander by Rosanne Parry