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A Horse in the House and Other Strange but True Animal Stories
Amazing real-life tales of animals — combined with delightfully surreal illustrations — make for a captivating book of a different stripe.
Whoever heard of a horse who lived in a house (while its owners lived next door)? Or two donkeys who had a marriage feast? Or an official spying cat who was wired for sound? These stories and many more — all quite strange, all very true — come from newspaper reports around the world. With paintings by Kathy Osborn hinting at magic realism and journalist Gail Ablow’s wonderfully witty text, this fascinating collection has much to say about creatures ranging from hippos to humans, who may in fact be the strangest animals of all. Back matter includes an author’s note.
Whoever heard of a horse who lived in a house (while its owners lived next door)? Or two donkeys who had a marriage feast? Or an official spying cat who was wired for sound? These stories and many more — all quite strange, all very true — come from newspaper reports around the world. With paintings by Kathy Osborn hinting at magic realism and journalist Gail Ablow’s wonderfully witty text, this fascinating collection has much to say about creatures ranging from hippos to humans, who may in fact be the strangest animals of all. Back matter includes an author’s note.
40 pages, Hardcover
First published September 25, 2007
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Displaying 1 - 9 of 9 reviews
May 30, 2017
Great collection of interesting stories of animals doing tge unexpected. Each story is beautifully illustrated. I loved the fact that they fact checked the stories and included two sources for most of the stories (the one that didn't have two listed was on national television).
July 23, 2026
These were some pretty interesting stories involving animals. It was a fun and quirky read.
October 5, 2007
Densely colourful, offbeat illustrations and an unusual hybrid of storytelling and text-book style narration tantalize us with strange but true animal stories that are surprisingly addictive.
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January 31, 2008
Strange but true animal stories
February 2, 2008
Kids love to read strange stories about animals-- this book features very short but true stories about green rabbits, spying cats, guard-parrots and more!
December 14, 2008
This is a group of short tales...that I was okay but not ecstatic about.
February 7, 2013
This is a great book for elementary kiddos with a little lesson about multiple sources at the end from the journalist/author.
July 20, 2011
The stories were cute.
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