This is a large neighborhood, with close to 300 items, and is primarily nonfiction. The instructions I've written for it call for only realistic fiction, but I admit that has not totally eventuated, although I have tried to keep the fiction realistic. There's a lot of informational picture books as well, most of which I've included under the Dewey numbers. The most popular animals tend to have more books, so those sections have more detailed call #s including big cats, bears, dolphins, elephants, monkeys (including apes), sloths, whales, and wolves. It took a lot of my self-control to keep these categories child-friendly and simple and not get into the weeds of classification!
Recommended Nonfiction series
- Amazing Animals from Creative Company
- Young Zoologist: A First Field Guide
- A Day in the Life: What do.... get up to all day?
- The truth about... by Maxwell Eaton III
- Just like us by Bridget Heos
- Hello I'm a... by Hayley and John Rocco
- You are a... by Laurie Ann Thompson
- Justin Anderson
- Nic Bishop
- Anna Brett
- Little... series
- Nelly Buchet (fiction)
- Owen Davey
- Jenni Desmond
- Lois Ehlert
- Jill Esbaum
- Suzi Eszterhas
- Candace Fleming
- Douglas Florian (fiction)
- Maria Gianferrari
- Gail Gibbons
- Sandra Markle
- Jonathan London
- Laurence Pringle
- Claire Saxby
- April Pulley Sayre
- Cathryn and John Sill
- Melissa Stewart
- Ashley Wolff (fiction)
- Bei Bei goes home by Cheryl Bardoe
- Wolves of Yellowstone by Catherine Barr
- Pika: A life in the rocks by Tannis Bill
- Wild about bears by Jeannie Brett
- Wombat by Philip Bunting
- See what a seal can do by Chris Butterworth
- Beaver and otter get along by Sneed B. Collard
- Brown bears by Nick Crumpton
- Wombats by Abi Cushman
- Destiny finds her way by Margarita Engle
- How to find a fox by Kate Gardner
- What goes on inside a beaver pond by Becky Gop
- Bears are best by Joan Holub
- Not a dog by Claudia Martinez
- Fox by Isabel Thomas
- She leads: The elephant matriarch by June Smalls
- Platypus by Sue Whiting
Recommended titles - Fiction
- Nightsong by Ari Berk
- I am a cat by Galia Bernstein
- Don't call me bear! by Aaron Blabey
- There's a lion in the forest by Monica Carnesi
- Seals are jerks by Jared Chapman
- What does an anteater eat by Ross Collins
- Dolphin Baby by Nicola Davies
- Wombat said come in by Carmen Agra Deedy
- Little and Big by Anne Gutman
- Bear report by Thyra Heder
- Our Tree by Jessica Meserve
- The perfect rock by Sarah Noble
- A Mammal is an animal by Lizzy Rockwell
- Tiny Little Fly by Michael Rosen
- Don’t eat that! By Drew Sheneman
- Down the hole by Scott Slater
- I am a great friend! by Lauren Stohler
- Chirp! Chipmunk sings for a friend by Jamie A. Swenson
- Giraffe Math by Stephen R. Swinburne
- Orangutangled by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
- Roar by Julie Bayless
- Building by Henry Cole
- Don't feed the bear by Kathleen Doherty
- Bat count by Anna Forrester
- Stripes and Spots by Dahlov Ipcar
- Raising Don: The true story of a spunky baby tapir by Georgeanne Irvine
- Three important jobs by Yvonne Ivinson
- The tiptoeing tiger by Philippa Leathers
- I am the mountain mouse: Four Furry Tales, One Crazy Mouse by Gianna Marino
- Noah's Seal by Layn Marlow
- Prickly Hedgehogs by Jane McGuinness
- Sea Bear by Lindsay Moore
- Moon Bears by Mark Newman
- A Baby Elephant in the Wild by Caitlin O'Connell
- Oh Dear, Geoffrey! by Gemma O'Neill
- Cougar Crossing by Meeg Pincus
- Molly, Olive, and Dexter: The Guessing Game by Catherine Rayner
- The Secret Life of Squirrels by Nancy Rose
- Have you seen my acorn? by DK Ryland
- Very hairy bear by Alice Schertle
- Little Chimp's Big Day by Lisa Schroeder
- Beachy and Me by Bob Staake
- If you were an elephant by Leslie Staub
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