Cats! Lewis Carroll had the grinning and vanishing Cheshire Cat; Beatrix Potter had Tom Kitten, and Ginger and Pickles. Mother Goose’s cat played the fiddle;…
The world is full of wonderful squirrels: Pattertwig in C.S. Lewis’s Prince Caspian, Silent Sam and Jess Squirrel in Brian Jacques’s Redwall, Scrat, the acorn-chasing…
September is National Chicken Month. (Celebrate?) See below for chicken books, chicken mummies, a dinosaur made from chicken bones, and Emily Dickinson’s opinion of why…
Elephants have commemorative days all their own: August 12 is World Elephant Day and September 22 is Elephant Appreciation Day. And, of course, for both…