All About Animals discussion

Who is your favorite authors?

Some of my favorite authors include; Erin Hunter, Peter Howe, James Howe, David Clement-Davies, Kathryn Lasky, Richard Adams, Ben M. Baglio aka, Lucy Daniels, Bonnie Bryant, Virginia Vail, Emily Costello, Laurie Halse Anderson, Julia Jarman, W. Bruce Cameron, Bill Wallace, Jim Kjelgaard, Dodie Smith, Felix Saltan, Jack London, and Dorothy Hearst among others.

Non-fiction: Petter Hessler, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Jared Diamonds

Fiction: Chris Cleave, Yann Martel, Nick Hornby

My favourite authors are:
David Stephen
Henry Williamson
Garry Kilworth
Brian Carter
J R R Tolkien
C S Lewis
Robert Graves
Gavin Maxwell
Mike Tomkies
Arthur Conan Doyle
Aeron Clement
J C Tregarthen
Richard Adams
Eileen Soper
Chris Ferris
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
A R Llyod
Martin Hocke
William Horwood.
My favourite poets are
Robert Service, John Masefield and Banjo Patterson.

Lastwolf, I love some of the same. I also love Richard Bach. And my favourite poet of all is Coleridge - the greatest conservationist of them all, hundreds of years ahead of his time.

I'm afraid I just cannot "get into" many books by modern writers. Somehow they don't seem to have a handle on prose like Williamson and Stephen. To me many seem to write as secondary school children, without soul or dedication.

I must try reading those two then. There are quite a few on your list I haven't read. I love all of your choice of three poets and all are more modern than the one I chose.

I'm not really a great reader of poetry but Services poems of the Klondike are so gripping and atmospheric, and the same goes for Banjo Patterson's Australian poems (esp. The Man from Snowy Rive and Brumbys Run). And there's nothing to touch Masefields Reynard the Fox, it's so early 20th century England.

I've never read Bach.

I'm sure if you love good non-anthropomorphic wildlife stories you will love David Stephen... Google him. He's a legend!

I love Snowy River. used to be able to recitre it by heart but not any more. I can still recite The Ancient Mariner form beginning to end though. Takes half an hour. It's the ultimate conservation animal story too. Way way way ahead of its time in the message it sends. About so much more than not killing an albatross.