Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves

8 best books like Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves (Laurel Braitman): Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird, Dicey's Song, What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World, The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, Preacher's Boy, Goodnight, Me, The Unexpected Truth About Animals: A Menagerie of the Misunderstood, What It's Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience

Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird

Author	Tim Birkhead
ISBN	0802779662

Most people would love to be able to fly like a bird, but few of us are aware of the other sensations that make being a bird a gloriously unique experience. What is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? How do desert birds detect rain hundreds of kilometers...

Dicey's Song

Author	Cynthia Voigt
ISBN	0689863624

"I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore."

3.5 ⭐️

This was a wonderful second installment to the Tillerman Cycle.
When we last left Dicey, James, Maybeth and Sammy - they were beginning new lives, living on their grandmothers farm.

This novel has...

What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World

Author	Jon Young
ISBN	0547451253

A lifelong birder, tracker, and naturalist, Jon Young is guided in his work and teaching by three basic premises: the robin, junco, and other songbirds know everything important about their environment, be it backyard or forest; by tuning in to their vocalizations and behavior, we can acquire much...

The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse

Author	Beatrix Potter
ISBN	0723247803

My traditional start of the reading year with a Beatrix Potter tale.
The tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, obsessed with keeping her house clean while visitors disturb her tidy house 'and without any invitation' according Mrs. Tittlemouse, such as the rather intruding toad Mr. Jackson, in search of honey......

Preacher's Boy

Author	Katherine Paterson
ISBN	0192750852

It is the turn of the twentieth century, and Robbie, son of a preacher, is tired of trying to please God. Moreover, although Robbie's father is kind and gentle, it's not that easy to do what he wants, either. So when a fire-and-brimstone minister suggests that the world may be ending soon, Robbie decides...

Goodnight, Me

Author	Andrew Daddo
ISBN	1599901536

A baby orangutan is sleepy, but before he shuts his eyes he must first say goodnight to each and every part of himself: from the feet that ran him around all day, to the legs that did all that jumping, to the ears that listened so intently to the big world around him. Echoing the loving goodnight rituals that...

The Unexpected Truth About Animals: A Menagerie of the Misunderstood

Author	Lucy Cooke
ISBN	0857524119

Librarian Note: Newer editions of this book have released with a different title: The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife. See ISBN 9780465094646

History is full of strange animal stories invented by the brightest and most influential,...

What It's Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience

Author	Gregory Berns
ISBN	0465096247

"Dog lovers and neuroscientists should both read this important book." --Dr. Temple Grandin

What is it like to be a dog? A bat? Or a dolphin? To find out, neuroscientist and bestselling author Gregory Berns and his team did something nobody had ever attempted: they trained dogs to go into an...