Thursday, June 16, 2011

Memorable Animals in Fiction

Another in my series of lists of "memorables" in literature: memorable animals.

Dogs:
-Pilot in “Jane Eyre” (Bronte)
-White Fang in “White Fang” (London)
-Buck in “Call of the Wild” (London)
-Grizzle in “Mrs. Dalloway” (Woolf)
-Old Yeller in “Old Yeller” (Gipson)
-Lassie in “Lassie Come Home” (Knight)
-Shadow in “Shadow the Sheep Dog” (Blyton)
-Nana in “Peter Pan” (Barrie)
-Yellow Dog Dingo in “Just So Stories” (Kipling)
-Jack in the “Little House” series (Wilder)
-Ribsy in Beverly Cleary’s books for children

Cats:
-Kitty in the “Little House” series (Wilder)
-Ginger in the Narnia books (Lewis)

Other:
-the horse Black Beauty in “Black Beauty” (Sewell)
-the Cowardly Lion in “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” (Baum)
-Peter Rabbit in the Beatrix Potter children’s books
-the White Rabbit and the March Hare in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (Carroll)
-the spider Charlotte and the pig Wilbur in “Charlotte’s Web” (White)
-the monkey Bandar-log in “The Jungle Book” (Kipling)
-the monkey Curious George in the series (Reys)
-the pigs Napoleon, Snowball, and Squealer in “Animal Farm” (Orwell)
-the robin in “The Secret Garden (Burnett)
 
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