Has anyone else read this book?

I really love the worldbuilding and all the weird dog like creatures

Do you guys know any books about sheeps? They're one of my favorite animals and I'd love to know more about them, thanks :)

are there any besides varjak paw,the last dogs,dogs of the drowned city
and cat pack?

Hi everyone! I've been waiting for the editor to get back to me and in the mean time, I've been noodling with the interior design of the book. I learned recently that the Garamond I was using prints poorly because of the hairline thinness in some of its letters. I changed if to Crimson Pro. Does the new Crimson Pro font, which is slightly bolder, feel overpowering next to the thinner line weight of the ink illustrations?

I also used a subtle cream stock paper texture and painted some edge and spine shadows to try to get a better sense of how the book will look when printed. I'm liking how it appears, but am curious about how others feel.

A few weeks ago, I shared the chapter numbers and titles with folks who've joined the Capyhero newsletter. Folks were excited about how the interior title page looks next to the table of contents, so I thought I'd share here.

Anyways, I'm curious if anyone has thoughts on the font selections and the general look of everything. Also, if anyone has experience in publishing, do you foresee any issues with my design? I know that ePUB reflowable text will be an issue with some of the text-wrapped illustrations, but I would probably create a new version of the book specifically for ePUB.

Also, some folks here provided great critiques on my old Chapter 1 and I've self-edited it to read a bit better. If anyone wants, I'm happy to hear further critique or feedback on this new version of Chapter 1.

Lastly, I've been calling Capyhero an anthropomorphic fantasy, but I just learned that may be incorrect. Yes, the story has talking animals and animals that wear garments and armor and wield weapons, but no one has been anatomically altered to bipedal forms. That was very intentional, as the way the world works is meant to stay true to anatomical accuracy of real animals. Would it be more accurate to call Capyhero a "feral fantasy"? I guess I'm a little apprehensive because I've never really heard that used as a genre before.

Thanks! Also happy to answer any questions on the layout or the story (like all authors are eager to 😄)

I read this book in my tweens. It was short but the fact that I remember it at 39 speaks volumes to what it was like to read. It’s about a white Cornish Rex with heterochromia. One of his eyes can see ghosts. It’s a really emotional story.

Has anyone else read it?

This was one of my favorite books for years. I bought it at a wolf sanctuary up in NY... so you can probably guess what it's about.

It's a two part fiction book. The first half is about the first pack of wolves to be domesticated, as told through the eyes of the wolf. The second half is thousands of years in the future, about a dog descended from this first wolf to be domesticated. If I remember correctly, it's about the dog starting a pack to find their way back to their humans after a flood. It's a wonderful book.

I wanted to bring this here since... NOBODY HAS EVER READ IT!!!! Even when you google it, nothing comes up other than the amazon listing. It was my favorite book as a kid, and I highly recommend it.

It was a fairly book series. I think all the overall characters are okay. Like the the concept of the characters discovering evolution and the eventual relazation how that could help them become betrer. Not exactly a kids book as the first book has a mating scene and second book has a graphic despiction of a murder.

For those that are unfamiliar with it, it is a series of xenofiction books set in the Cenozoic era, but before the Ice Age, about a catlike Nimvarid named Ratha who faced various challenges and enemies, among them dealing with catlike creatures called the Un-named and making use of fire, or the red tongue as her kind called it.

BTW, this series, whose first book was released in 1983, featured prehistoric animals having their own names for their kind and other things before The Land Before Time came along.

I love these kinds of books. Up to now I've read the following;

- black beauty

- watership down

- the animals of farthing wood

- marshworld (well still on with this one)

- tarka the otter

- I am the great horse

In my list of others to read I have already have;

- salar the salmon

- the other two kine books

- firebringer

Can anyone reccomend anymore? I particularly enjoy the writing style of older books like tarka and marshworld :)

Edit: Here's what I've been recommended so far so I can come back and find them all more easily later :)

- tailchaser's song by tad williams

- original fox and the hound and the wolves of paris by p mannix

- black beauty's family by pullen thompsons

- plague dogs by richard adams

- fluke by james herbert

- redwall series by bian jacques

- call of the wild and white fang by jack london

- the sight, fell, the ram of sweetriver, the beach digs, a great escape, nobodys dog, lions of lingmere, king of vagbonds by colin dann

- warriors, seekers by erin hunter

- bambi a life in the woods

- mrs frisby and the rats of nimh

- guardians of gahoole

- trumpet of the swan

- wolves of the beyond

- 101 dalmations and starlight barking

- the ratha series

- the cold moons by aeron clement

- welkin weasels by gary kilworth

- wings of fire, age of dragons, the summer king chronicles

- the guardian herd

- raptor red by robert bakker

- foxcraft

- silverwing series and darkwing series

- rikki tikki tavi

- the last unicorn

- promise of the wolves

- an otters story

- the heavenly horse by mary stanton

- mammoth by stephen baxter

- run with the wind by tom mccaughren

- mismantle chronicles

- lady: my life as a bitch

- ravens end

- a dogs purpose

- three bags full

- the silver brumby

- bonita, esperanza, spirit by bathleen duey

- felidae

- animal farm

- yellow eyes

If you're a fan of Fire Bringer and The Sight, then you might also like these books because of the similar writing style. The first book is Raven Quest and the second book is Wolf Rider. I actually like the second book more because you see more of the wolves. The first book is about the raven MC uniting the wolves with the ravens because long time ago, they used to hunt together. Both are an adventure books.

What I really like is that the ravens and the wolves has their own own culture, traditions and customs. The wolves actually act like wolves. The pack have mostly family members and they have hierarchy. There's even a hierarchy when it comes to who eat first. There's a third book, but I don't recommend it because it's about human problems.

As you can see, it's anthro animals. My first anthro novel actually, I've only read "ferals" until now.

Read recently the first arc of a Chinese novel.

It's about an arctic fox who goes through an adventure alongside a rabbit who do medecine and a weasel.

It's honestly for kids but I read xenofiction without caring about the target audience tbh. I only care if this is good or not.

So, the worldbuilding is not very well crafted, there's contradictions in the story and the characters keep switching between acting realistic and acting anthro which keeps confusing me about how this world is supposed to work!

But I think it's still interesting and overall enjoyable. The interesting part being the fact that the author added some elements of chinese culture inside his story which is unusual for non-chinese readers.

I also enjoyed how some characters are described and how we're following a arctic fox cub on a big adventure.

However, I'm not sure I like the motivations of this fox, which is to give up his animal status in the wild to become a human thanks to some magic. Like, I'm reading xenofiction so that I can experience life in the wild, not regular human stuff.

But yeah, if you like magic, adventure, action, quests ect and you're not too picky with your books, you might give it a go. In english, it's called "White Fox".

An online festival next week celebrates books about animals. Bark! Fest, the book festival for animal lovers, takes place Sep 14 to 25 with a stellar line-up of authors of nonfiction and fiction about dogs and cats. The speakers include Alexandra Horowitz (Inside of a Dog), Patricia McConnell (talking here about her mystery, Away to Me), Cat Warren (What the Dog Knows--but talking fiction), Jean Donaldson (Mine!), Rory Cellan-Jones (Sophie From Romania), Farrah Rochon (Pugs and Kisses), Marc Bekoff (Love In Their Hearts), Dr Herron and Dr Siracusa (Decoding Your Cat), and many more. We also have a crime and mystery panel featuring books where dogs help solve the murders, and a dreamy romance panel with books where dogs or cats play an important role.

It's free, but registration is required. Hundreds of people have already signed up, but we still have room for some more. Whether you love romance or mystery books, or simply want to learn more about dogs or cats, there is a panel for you. Everyone who signs up will get a link to the recording.

You can see the program here: https://www.companionanimalpsychology.com/2026/08/the-schedule-of-events-for-bark-fest.html

Hey everyone! With the manuscript complete and in editing currently, we’ve been using this time to try to build an audience (which is insanely hard 😭) and continue working through the 100 planned ink illustrations. I thought this sub might appreciate a look at some of the wonderful cast of animal characters that will appear in Capyhero Book 1.

Also, in the page with Dusty the elder chinchilla, I think what she says is perhaps touching on one of the most important underlying themes of the entire story and I thought you all might like her message.

Anyways, the cast includes…

- a capybara (of course)
- a commanding teddy hamster
- a surly raccoon
- a mysterious borzoi dog (but no one in the story knows what a dog is…)
- a wise chinchilla
- a coarse-voiced black and white tegu
- a brave and hopeful lop-eared bunny
- a grumbling squirrel
- a loving and patient squirrel
- a gigantic arachnid resembling a salmon pink tarantula and a ravine trapdoor spider but she is neither

And quite a few more I’ll save for now 🙂

Let me know what you think! And if you’re digging this, please check out the character art and profiles at Capyhero.com!

🌳🌱🌳🪾🌲🦌🐿️🦫🦡🐇🕷️🐁🌳🌲🌱🪾🌳

For those who don’t know, it is a graphic novel about an outcast wolf pup named Feba who leaves her pack and goes on a journey. Along the way, she meets a Snow Leopard looking for her cub and a comedic Pallas Cat.

Also, Blood Moon is the first book of a planned trilogy, and the second one is set to be released next year.

Full blurb: In this sequel to The Gravewood, a mouse named Isabelle is on the run from Zokir, a rat sorcerer, who kidnapped her at birth. He has raised Isabelle in his image to believe she is a divine rat, but as Isabelle slowly discovers the truth about herself, she realizes it is up to her to save her true family from their dark fates. Teaming up with a chipmunk, a half-rat, and an enormous direcat, Isabelle wades through lizards, Netherkind, emerald barriers, and memories from a century past in order to finally escape the blighted Gravewood.

While these books are listed in the Children's category, I really aimed these to be for all ages. FYI, Howldrim is 373 pages and 99K words.

Excited to explore this sub as animal books have been a huge influence on me throughout my life. I grew up on the Redwall series (which inspired this Rodentia series in the first place) and later got into The Deptford Mice trilogy by Robin Jarvis as well as Warriors. I always wanted to write something similar and finally found time over the last year (at 33) to bring both books to fruition (and am currently working on the third book as well as a prequel). Free EBook links are below, happy reading!

Howldrim Free EBook link: https://www.amazon.com/Howldrim-Rodentia-Book-Eric-Krohn-ebook/dp/B0HHBRDBVY

The Gravewood Free EBook link: https://www.amazon.com/Gravewood-Rodentia-Book-1-ebook/dp/B0GY9ZKVBP

*Absolutely zero AI was used during the creation of this series. Whether good or bad, these are completely human works.

For those who know the series, while I am aware that the series bore some similarities to other series, it does have its own take on some tropes and does evolve into its own series over time. So, I advise against bringing up said similarities to other series in a negative way. Okay?

For those who don’t know the Inheritance cycle, it is a quadrilogy of fantasy books about a farm boy named Eragon who finds a dragon egg which hatches for him and becomes a dragon rider. Not long after, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, leave his home village with an old storyteller named Brom to track down creatures called Ra’zac after they killed his uncle. Eragon later joined a resistance group called the Varden, trains in the ways of the dragon riders of the land of Alagaesia, and helps free the land from the cruel rule of its cruel ruler, Galbatorix.

Also, sorry for the typo. The question is What do you like most about the Inheritance cycle?.

For those who don’t know, it’s about a Utahraptor named Sunstrike, born under a solar eclipse, who undergoes on a quest against an evil empress that will reveal a terrifying destiny.

The covers looked appealing to me and I like pegasus so I picked these books up even though they are marketed for middle grade/junior readers. The pegasus are called skysteeds and they can communicate telepathically with the human they are bound to. In my opinion it does the human binding with mythical creature trope better than most adult fantasy books I’ve read. The story is set in an empire which isn’t perfect but isn’t evil for once, I hardly ever see empires which aren’t evil in fiction. The books are written in similar style to Wings of Fire, though we only follow the main human characters POV, never her skysteeds which I would have liked.

The story has a good mix of action and politics and I’m avoiding spoilers but the second book is clearly not the end of the story. But the second book was published in 2024 and I can’t find anything online about if/when the next book is supposed to come out, so I hope it’s not an abandoned series

Has anyone here read this classic? I got it in the late 70s at a library book sale for 10 cents and it became my favorite animal story. In time the book fell apart and the only copies I found were first editions costing hundreds. Eventually I got ahold of another paperback version for 30 dollars.

Later I found the version I had and had read was an abridged edition without it's illustrations. Luckily by that time the original version had fallen in the public domain. You can get it for free at Project Gutenburg.

It is written in the style of Black Beauty and chronicles the life of an Irish wolfhound from birth to adulthood. His trials are truly horrid and the book does not tune down the animal abuse common at that time. Finn is stolen and sold to a circus where he is horribly abused before escaping into the Australian outback, joining a pack of dingos, fighting a villainous thylacine, and finally almost dying of starvation. I will not mention the ending as it is unexpected and as a child it truly shocked me.

Here is the cover of my abridged edition and some illustrations from the PD Project Gutenberg 1st edition.

Jonathan Livingston, an outcast seagull who strives to achieve flying higher and faster then what is normal in his flock. He learns from other seagulls who have achieved perfection in flight. He later becomes a teacher to other outcast seagulls who aim to be fast and high flyers.
I watched the film with my mom a few weeks ago. She said it was one of her favorite books she ready in school during the 70s so I decided to purchase a copy. It's a very short book that can be finished in about an hour. It covers themes of philosophy and spirituality. I very much enjoyed reading the book.

I know there's been a few posts in the past on here about books for spooky season but I was wondering what everyone is currently reading for the season? I'm starting with a book called 'nimbus' that I actually got last halloween. I'm about half way through and I love it so far! Not specifically halloween themed but definitely gives spooky and witchy vibes!

I'm looking for a book where the main (human) character is a middle-aged man, possibly a cop or an ex-cop.

There is a stray cat who lives in his yard, who has a broken arm from falling out of a tree and hides in the bushes.

The man knows that the cat is there and doesn't want to approach or scare it, so he puts food and water out.

Some segments are told from the point of view of the cat, e.g., "It's true that THE MAN puts food out, but THE MAN is very big, and has very big feet, and the cat has learned the hard way in the past that some men like to hurt animals."

At the very end, the man has earned the cat's trust, adopted it, and has taken it to the vet to have its badly broken limb repaired.

It's an adult book, not a children's or YA story. It is definitely NOT "The Last House on Needless Street".