Ten animal story heros you should love

[Catherine]

What about Peter rabbit and that whole family of animals. I guess they are not heroes, they are just the stars of their stories.


All our favourite stories are about animals aren't they.

My special favourite is called The Winter of the Fisher    and sadly it is out of print.  The author was badly hurt in a car accident as a young man and managed to write one book before he died. The Fisher is the North American animal that is part of the weasel/mink/pine martin family. It follows his first year and his relationship with and Ojibway who lives in his territory. You feel like you are inside the heart and soul of the animal and yet you are inside the heart of the man as well.

The Fisher stays a wild animal, but they have a bond of mutual respect and in an emergency the Fisher come to the man for help.
In return the old man feels the will to live return to him. The Fisher breaks through the man's loneliness and isolation by just being there and being interesting. 

I wish I could share the book with you.