I feel the inclusion of God and biblical messages dampens some of the utterly charming stories this book has to offer, some of which I've not found in any other book form or story form besides this one, which makes buying it with the religious aspect all over a bit disheartening.

It's hard to hand these out to animals lovers of all religions and lack thereof when the message is forced, but I do find the appeal just slightly outweighs explaining to friends and people who aren't religious that I'm not trying to spread much more than a cute story around. ( )

This is a book of short stories about animals. Most were written in the early 1900s for children. There are a few stories which I find wonderful examples of nature writing at its best, and a few that I just found sappy. The rest fall somewhere in between. The story of the ducks was full of very personal memories for me, and the one about the talking crow was very funny, others, like the one about cottontails and coyotes were very informational. If you like animals and stories of nature, this is a nice book to read. ( )