48 books
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3 voters
Listopia > Arthur Chappell's votes on the list Animal Books I Have Read (99 Books)
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Monkeys & Midgets
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"Wrestlers are forced to fight monkeys "
Arthur
rated it 1 star
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Equus
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"Horrific play about a stable-hand who blinds several horses "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Pope's Rhinoceros
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"A medieval pope sends a group of monks on a mission to catch a rhino for his zoo "
Arthur
rated it 3 stars
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The Nest
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"man eating cockroach horror"
Arthur
rated it 4 stars
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Squirm
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"mutant worms eat people"
Arthur
rated it 3 stars
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The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal
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"Describes people as zoological animals "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Rhinocéros
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"People start turning into rhinoceroses "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Red Pony
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"A boy is given a pony as a present "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Best of Gerald Durrell
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"The life of the great animal expert and zoo-keeper "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Blacksad (Blacksad, #1-3)
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"A cat detective in a noir world of animal crime "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
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"the famous living teddy bear "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh, #2)
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"the famous living teddy bear "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)
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"the famous living teddy bear "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Just So Stories
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"how the elephant got his trunk and other animal yarns "
Arthur
rated it 4 stars
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Birds
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"Two philosophers move to Cloudcuckooland to live with the birds "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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101 More Uses of a Dead Cat
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"funny bad taste cartoons"
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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101 Uses for a Dead Cat
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"funny bad taste cartoons"
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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"A seagull becomes a mesiah for other seagulls "
Arthur
rated it 3 stars
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Miss Bianca in the Antarctic (The Rescuers, #6)
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"Mice run a detective agency "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Rescuers (The Rescuers, #1)
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"Mice run a detective agency "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Cavalry
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"A history of horses in world warfare "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Lord God Made Them All (All Creatures Great and Small, #7)
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"Memoirs of a Yorkshire vet "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Falling For A Dolphin
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"A poet reflects on the dolphin "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Whale Nation
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"A poet praises the Whale and laments the threat of its extinction "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Great Apes
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"Has everyone except one man turned into apes or is he a delusional man or ape? "
Arthur
rated it 2 stars
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The Snake
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"An escaped poisonous snake in Central Park panic New Yorkers "
Arthur
rated it 4 stars
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
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"A small town frog becomes internationally famous "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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"An unfortunate albatross becomes a necklace "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Sredni Vashtar and Other Stories
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"A boy worships a mongoose as a God and kills for it - terrifying "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
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"Poem that became the script for a stage musical "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Tarzan and the Lion Man (Tarzan, #17)
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"Tarzan meets intelligent apes who have recreated the court of Henry 8th in this ridiculous story "
Arthur
rated it 2 stars
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Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
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"Tarzan is raised by apes in the first book in the classic series "
Arthur
rated it 3 stars
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The Raven
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"Horror poem taught to many US children "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Aesop’s Fables
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"Many animals appear in these charming moralistic beast fables "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Unadulterated Cat
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"Funny look at the feline pets "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Animal Farm
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"Famous allegory on Communism with a failed revolution on the farm ending in tragedy "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Call of the Wild
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"A stolen pet dog reverts to wolf origins in the wilderness "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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A Kestrel for a Knave
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"A young boy raises and trains a kestrel until his brother seeks a terrible revenge "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Stonor Eagles
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"An Eagle flying south for the Winter and an artist painting the story as it unfolds"
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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A Street Cat Named Bob
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"A homeless busker is befriended by a street cat and they each save the other in this heart-warming true story "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Rhinoceros and Other Plays
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"People turn into rhinos in this weird surreal comedy drama "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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"Rabbits lose their burrow and eek a new home in this brutal but brilliant epic story "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Black Cat
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"When you bury a body in the wall be careful not to bury a demonic cat with it "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Rats in the Walls
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"Typical Lovecraftian horror with rats "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
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"A killer assisted by another one who may not be human "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Company of Wolves
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"wolves and werewolves in a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Birds
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"The famous short story of killer birds, filmed by Hitchcock "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The House on the Borderland
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"A strange house on the edge of mysterious dimensions. A dog comes to a particularly horrible end "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Owl Service
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"A tea-et painted with owls hides terrible pagan secrets "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Night of the Crabs
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"giant crabs attack a seaside community - several silly sequels followed "
Arthur
rated it 3 stars
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The Year of the Ladybird
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"in the heatwave of 1976 when Ladybirds swarmed in plagues (as really happened) a haunted man finds all his work mates are neo-Nazis. "
Arthur
rated it 1 star
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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"A dog is framed for murder - butterflies play a big part too. "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Raven Girl
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"A man seduces a raven and they have a daughter "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Breathtaker
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"A succubus girl ages and withers her lovers, including a deer "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Cavalry
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"A history of horses in warfare "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Seaguy (Seaguy (2004))
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"The hero is a frogman who has a squid for a girlfriend "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Hope
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"mutated rats are among the many dangers on this strange ship "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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A Dog Called Demolition
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"A dog that really lives up to its name "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Amityville Horror
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"the house attracts a plague of flies from Hell "
Arthur
rated it 1 star
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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"The Watchdog is literally a clockwork sheep dog "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)
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"A Discworld witches story with a cat who sometimes turns human "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)
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"A talking dog and the best story to feature Discworld's Librarian. "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Pyramids (Discworld, #7)
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"A rude camel is a major mathematician "
Arthur
rated it 4 stars
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Hogfather
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"Father Christmas on Discworld has his sleigh pulled by pigs "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Planet of the Apes
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"Famous story of a planet where apes enslave humans "
Arthur
rated it 4 stars
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The Judge's House
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"An execution judge is haunted by the ghosts of the men he sent to the gallows when they reincarnate as rats - he is already dead but that won't stop them"
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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"The best known Aslan the God story in the Chronicles Of Narnia "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The City (Rats, #4)
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"Graphic novel in which a teacher seek his wife in a radioactive London plagued by killer rats "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Fluke
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"the dead come back in the bodies of dogs "
Arthur
rated it 4 stars
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Domain (Rats, #3)
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"After WW3 killer rats take over London "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Lair (Rats, #2)
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"The killer rats hide in the countryside when the teacher who fought them in the first book finds them again "
Arthur
rated it 3 stars
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The Rats (Rats, #1)
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"Killer rats terrorize London "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Cujo
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"A friendly Saint Bernard Dog gets rabies and goes on a killing spree "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Rocking-Horse Winner
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"A boy has visions of winning horses in the races and his family get rich but fail to see the visions are killing him "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The House on the Borderland and Other Novels
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"A house teeters on the edge of dangerous dimensions - a dog comes to a particularly horrible end "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Food of the Gods
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"Contaminated grain makes hens, rats, cats and even people into giants "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Wasp Factory
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"The factory is a cruel machine for keeping dying wasps trapped "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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"many animals appear in the Wonderland adventures, most notably a white rabbit terrified of being late "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #2)
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"sequel to Alice In Wonderland so more talking rabbits and other animals "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
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"A crazed scientist makes wild jungle animals evolve into people overnight but they start to revert to their true nature "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Snowman
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"A child's snowman takes him to see Santa, reindeer and other magical animals "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
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"Return of the armour plated fighting polar bears "
Arthur
rated it 2 stars
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
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"Polar bears are fierce enough, but in this book, they wear armour and carry weapons too "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Zodiac
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"Marine pollution kills fish "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Cat's Revenge: More Than 101 Uses for Dead People
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"A response to Simon Bond's books about dead cats being used a shoes etc, - here the cats find clever way to use human corpses. Funny and irreverent "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Voyage of the Beagle
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Phase IV
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"Alien controlled ordinary sized ants enslave humanity"
Arthur
rated it 4 stars
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Horton Hears a Who!
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The Rivals of King Kong: A Rampage of Beasts
by See Review |
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River of Death
by See Review |
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Albert, 'Arold and Others
by See Review |
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Flowers for Algernon
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The Secret Life of Pets 2017 Annual
by See Review |
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Jaws (Jaws, #1)
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Ligeia
by See Review |
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Greenland Seas
by See Review |
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The Raven and Other Poems
by See Review |
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona
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"A dog called Crab gets more kudos in this play than the human characters "
Arthur
rated it 2 stars
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Five on Brexit Island
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"Timmy the Famous Five dog shows zero interest in international politics "
Arthur
rated it 3 stars
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