Writers and Their Pets: True Stories of Famous Authors and Their Animal Friends

Duration: 2H 20min
Language: English
Format
Category: Children

Discover how animals influenced twenty of the world’s most beloved authors, from Charles Dickens to J. K. Rowling.

Did you know that a dog saved Pablo Neruda’s life? Or that Mark Twain had a cat named Bambino? Or that Edgar Allan Poe wrote with a cat on his shoulders?

Writers and Their Pets tells these stories and many more that will delight not only children but also literary experts, history lovers, and animal enthusiasts. Each short chapter focuses on one author’s life, using simple and entertaining text to weave tales of the pets that affected the lives and works of these writers.

Writers and Their Pets features a diverse list of both male and female international authors, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, including Beatrix Potter, E. B. White, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Kurt Vonnegut, Maurice Sendak, Ernest Hemingway, and more.

Release date

Audiobook: 10 September 2019

Writers and Their Pets: True Stories of Famous Authors and Their Animal Friends

Duration: 2H 20min
Language: English
Format
Category: Children

Discover how animals influenced twenty of the world’s most beloved authors, from Charles Dickens to J. K. Rowling.

Did you know that a dog saved Pablo Neruda’s life? Or that Mark Twain had a cat named Bambino? Or that Edgar Allan Poe wrote with a cat on his shoulders?

Writers and Their Pets tells these stories and many more that will delight not only children but also literary experts, history lovers, and animal enthusiasts. Each short chapter focuses on one author’s life, using simple and entertaining text to weave tales of the pets that affected the lives and works of these writers.

Writers and Their Pets features a diverse list of both male and female international authors, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, including Beatrix Potter, E. B. White, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Kurt Vonnegut, Maurice Sendak, Ernest Hemingway, and more.

Release date

Audiobook: 10 September 2019