Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Big Dark Forest

We can't go over it,
We can't go under it,
Oh-No, we've got to go through it!

Stumble Trip
Stumble Trip
Stumble Trip

Your clues:
1. animals (extinct or not) on cover (strictly non-supernatural, non-mythical)
2. name of animal in title/subtitle (strictly non-supernatural, non-mythical)
3. book featuring "talking" animals ("can communicate with a human")

Please note which clue your book fits.

Clue #1

Clue #2

All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy #1) by Cormac MacCarthy
And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat
The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich
Black Swan Rising (Black Swan Rising #1) by Lee Carroll
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Den of Wolves (Blackthorn & Grim #3) by Juliet Marillier
[book:A Dog Named Boo: How One Dog and One Woman Rescued Each Other--and the Lives They Transformed Along the Way by Lisa J. Edwards
Dog Tags (Andy Carpenter #8) by David Rosenfelt
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be by Farley Mowat
The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth
Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
Finches of Mars by Brian W. Aldiss
God’s Dog by Diego Marani
The Gravity of Birds by Tracy Guzeman
The Hawk (Highland Guard #2) by Monica McCarty
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Legions of the Eagle by Henry Treece
Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds by Rusty Bradley
The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them by Donovan Hohn
The Mockingbirds (The Mockingbirds #1) by Daisy Whitney
The Monkey’s Raincoat (Elvis Cole #1) by Robert Crais
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
Moth Smoke by [ author:Mohsin Hamid]
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
Newt's Emerald by Garth Nix
One Dog Night (Andy Carpenter #9) by David Rosenfelt
Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat
People of the Deer by Farley Mowat
The Raven's Wing by Francis Watts
Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck,and a Few Turtles by Rescue Ink
Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connection with Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep by Marah Hardt
The Silver Pigs (Marcus Didius Falco #1) by Lindsey Davis
Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara
The Squirrel-Cage by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie #4) by Kate Atkinson
Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf by Sonya Hartnett
The Thief and the Dogs by Naguib Mahfouz
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
The Tower of Ravens (Rhiannon's Ride #1) by Kate Forsyth
Venice Is a Fish: A Sensual Guide by Tiziano Scarpa
Voice of the Eagle (Kwani #1) by Linda Lay Shuler
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
A Whale for the Killing by Farley Mowat
What the Raven Saw by Samantha-Ellen Bound
White Horse (White Horse #1) by Alex Adams
Who Let the Dog Out? (Andy Carpenter #13) by David Rosenfelt
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Wolf Winter by Cecelia Eckback
Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa by Farley Mowat
The Wounded Hawk (The Crucible #2) by Sara Douglass
The Year of the Rat by Clare Furniss

Clue #3

Joe Grey series -19 books

Winnie the Pooh

Points Awarded

7 - Lauren
23 - Amy
29 - Bea
35 - Coralie
49 - Tien
57 - Karin

reserved

Clue #1:



Clue #2:

All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
The Raven's Wing by Francis Watts
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
What the Raven Saw by Samantha-Ellen Bound
The Wounded Hawk (The Crucible #2) by Sara Douglass
Black Swan Rising (Black Swan Rising #1) by Lee Carroll
The Tower of Ravens (Rhiannon's Ride #1) by Kate Forsyth
The Year of the Rat by Clare Furniss
White Horse (White Horse #1) by Alex Adams
Newt's Emerald by Garth Nix
Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan

Clue #3:

Joe Grey series -19 books

Winnie the Pooh

Clue #2
Cat's Eye

Clue #1



Clue #2
Dog Tags
One Dog Night
Who Let the Dog Out?
The Lizard Cage
A Dog Named Boo: How One Dog and One Woman Rescued Each Other--and the Lives They Transformed Along the Way
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Clue #1: Animal on the cover



Clue #2: Animal in title

Hungry Like the Wolf
The Wolf Within
Last Wolf Standing
The Hawk

Hooray! I just watched the author perform this yesterday to see what came next, and given that we'd done trees with grass was curious to see what forest would bring. My son and I are reading a series that gives me 4 books for clue one right off the bat.
BUT SOMEONE BEAT ME TO IT!!!!!

But I didn't grow up reading Farley Mowatt and Thornton Burgess for nothing!

So, here are a few others:

Clue #2
Never Cry Wolf
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be
Owls in the Family
People of the Deer
A Whale for the Killing
And No Birds Sang
Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them

Clue # 1

(seagulls flying around the boat)

Clue #1



Clue #2
Started Early, Took My Dog
The Gravity of Birds
Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds
The Monkey's Raincoat
Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck,and a Few Turtles
The Silver Pigs
Voice of the Eagle
The Mockingbirds

Clue #1


Clue #2
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Legions of the Eagle
Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf
The Antelope Wife
The Feast of the Goat
Moth Smoke
All the Pretty Horses
The Squirrel-Cage
The Thief and the Dogs
God's Dog
Even the Dogs
Finches of Mars
Welcome to the Monkey House
The Mosquito Coast
Thousand Cranes
Snakes and Earrings

Lauren wrote: "Clue #1: Animal on the cover

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Sorry, Lauren, half of these books seem to be supernatural so I'd assume the 'animals' on cover are actually shapeshifters (ie. supernatural)?

Some of the paranormal books are about shifters but others aren't. The shapeshifting ones are Wild Wolf, Savage Hunger and Destiny of the Wolf.

Do they not count because the animal in the story is supernatural even if the animal on the cover is a real one?
Just want to know for future reference :0)

Lauren wrote: "Some of the paranormal books are about shifters but others aren't. The shapeshifting ones are Wild Wolf, Savage Hunger and Destiny of the Wolf.

Do they not count because the animal in the story i..."

Sorry if I wasn't clear in the first place, Lauren :)

Yes, I wanted to make this strictly non-supernatural so even if they look like real-life animals on cover but technically (or rather) fictionally they're not, I'd not count them.

Thanks for the clarification, Tien

By the way, the following do not involve shapeshifting characters but haven't been added to the accepted books. Thanks.

The Hawk

Clue #1

PAS updated through #8.

Clue #1 (another in the series that Amy was listing) - added to PAS already

Skipped Lauren's post (#10) when updating PAS due to needing to check more closely on what Tien approved. I will come back to that one.

PAS updated through #11.

Post #10/17 updated to PAS.

PAS updated through post #22.

Tien, I did not include Coralie's (post 13) Moth Smoke and The Mosquito Coast, since moth/mosquito are insects. (I checked post 3 but did not see that you had updated that one since post 7.)

My husband says insects are animals, too. What say you?

Bea wrote: "My husband says insects are animals, too. What say you? "

Lol - love that you checked with hubz ha ha ha

I'm sure we'd find insects in the forest so yes, include them :)

Sorry, this game takes a lot of administering & I need to make sure I have plenty of time to actually sit down and do them so I'm waayyy behind!

@Lauren (msg #17)

sorry! I've only done the covers so far... however, I wouldn't include Wickedly Dangerous because of "dragon-turned-dog" - let me know if it's actually a dog :)

Thanks Tien. Will do!

Tien wrote: "Bea wrote: "My husband says insects are animals, too. What say you? "

Lol - love that you checked with hubz ha ha ha

I'm sure we'd find insects in the forest so yes, include them :)

Sorry, this ..."

Having grown up by the bush (what we call the forest in BC, although we don't do that where I live now) I can tell you for certain you'd find insects there :). Lots and lots and lots. Unless, of course, it's winter and then you might have to search for them :)

Thanks, all. I will add the insects...lol

Tien wrote: "@Lauren (msg #17)

sorry! I've only done the covers so far... however, I wouldn't include Wickedly Dangerous because of "dragon-turned-dog" - let me know if it's actually a dog :)"

Removed from PAS.

PAS updated with insects!

Clue # 2
Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connection with Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep

(same book, but to help me find it later when I see where I posted it).

Clue #2
Wolf Winter

Clue #1
-kangaroo at bottom of cover
-horses & bulls

Clue #1:


Clue #2:
The Dogs of War

PAS updated through #34.

(snake on cover) Clue #1

PAS updated through #36.

Clue #2
Venice Is a Fish: A Sensual Guide

PAS updated through #38.

Clue #1 (dog on cover)

PAS updated.

Clue #2

Den of Wolves (Blackthorn & Grim #3)

Clue #1

PAS updated through #43.

Clue #1

-raven on the shield

PAS updated.

Clue # 1. animals (extinct or not) on cover (strictly non-supernatural, non-mythical

birds--here's a larger picture of it:

1. animals (extinct or not) on cover (strictly non-supernatural, non-mythical)

PAS updated through #48.