Animal friends

About this collection

Loyal dogs, wise horses, stubborn mules and the creatures that teach us about love. Many of these animal stories are fables with a moral, and all of them are gentle enough to share with children and grandchildren.

A Group of Frogs and Two Frogs in a Milk Pail are short fables about encouragement and never quitting that teachers use in class. The Old Mule in the Well is about shaking off life’s troubles, and The Geese and the Snowstorm helps a skeptical farmer understand why God came to earth. Puppy Love is about a boy who wants the puppy no one else will choose, and in A 4-Year-Old’s Letter to God, a little girl writes to God after her dog dies and gets an answer.

For more, browse our animals section.