The Red Book of Animal Stories

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books are a series of twenty-five collections of true and fictional stories for children, published between 1889 and 1913. The best known books of the series are the twelve collections of fairy tales, known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors. In all, the volumes feature 798 stories, besides the 153 poems in The Blue Poetry Book.
The Red Book of Animal Stories contains forty-six stories about real and mythical animals. Some of them are simple accounts of how animals live in the wild. Others are stories about pets, or remarkable wild animals, or about hunting expeditions.
Stories Included Within This Book:
The Phœnix
Griffins and Unicorns
About Ants, Amphisbænas, and Basilisks
Dragons
The Story of Beowulf, Grendel, and Grendel's Mother
The Story of Beowulf and the Fire Drake
A Fox Tale
An Egyptian Snake Charmer
An Adventure of Gérard, the Lion Hunter
Pumas and Jaguars in South America
Mathurin and Mathurine
Joseph: Whose proper name was Josephine
The Homes of the Vizcachas
Guanacos: Living and Dying
In the American Desert
The Story of Jacko II
'Princess'
The Lion and the Saint
The Further Adventures of 'Tom,' a Bear, in Paris
Recollections of a Lion Tamer
Sheep Farming on the Border
When the World was Young
Bats and Vampires
The Ugliest Beast in the World
The Games of Orang-Outangs, and Kees the Baboon
Greyhounds and their Masters
The Great Father, and Snakes' Ways
Elephant Shooting
Hyenas and Children
A Fight with a Hippopotamus
Kanny, the Kangaroo
Collies, or Sheep Dogs
Two Big Dogs and a Little One
Crocodile Stories
Lion-Hunting and Lions
On the Trail of a Man-eater
Greyhounds and their Arab Masters
The Life and Death of Pincher
A Boar Hunt by Moonlight
Thieving Dogs and Horses
To the Memory of Squouncer
How Tom the Bear was born a Frenchman
Charley
Fairy Rings; and the Fairies who make them
How the Reindeer Live
The Cow and the Crocodile