Books That Influenced Our Path

What books shaped the animal communicators we are today? In this episode, Julie, Karen, and Meredith take a warm and wonderfully nostalgic trip down memory lane, sharing the childhood and young adult books that, looking back, quietly set them on the path to the work they do now. Together, they invite you to look back at the books that found you as a child because they may have been pointing you somewhere all along.

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Books Mentioned in This Episode

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (Newberry Medal, 1973)

Dog's Body by Diana Wynne Jones

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams

D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (adapted as the film The Secret of NIMH*)*

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

Babar by Cécile de Brunhoff (original story); illustrated and published by Jean de Brunhoff; series continued by Laurent de Brunhoff