Wild Animals I Have Known

10 best books like Wild Animals I Have Known (Ernest Thompson Seton): Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Heroism of Theodore Roosevelt, Know What You Believe: Connecting Faith and Truth, Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend, The Tale of Troy: Retold from the Ancient Authors, Karlsson on the Roof, Abraham Lincoln's World, George Washington Carver: Man's Slave Becomes God's Scientist, Madam How and Lady Why, God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality, Exegetical Fallacies

Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Heroism of Theodore Roosevelt

Author	George Grant
ISBN	1888952202

Modern Americans may wonder why Theodore Roosevelt is one of the quartet of Presidents immortalized on Mount Rushmore. Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Heroism of Theodore Roosevelt partly answers that question.

Roosevelt is largely unknown to current Americans despite his popularity...

Know What You Believe: Connecting Faith and Truth

Author	Paul E. Little
ISBN	0781439647

What does the Bible teach about God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit?
What do angels, Satan, and demons have to do with reality?
What place should the Bible or a church have in my life?

Perhaps you think you know what others are telling you to believe, but deep down inside you wonder, "What is...

Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend

Author	James S. Hirsch
ISBN	1416547908

A strong and well-constructed biography of one of the first black men integrated into the majors in early 1950s America, and more importantly to the man himself, one of the best players and nicest guys ever to play the game. Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend encompasses a great deal of this monumental...

The Tale of Troy: Retold from the Ancient Authors

Author	Roger Lancelyn Green
ISBN	0140367454

"To the ancient Greeks the Siege of Troy was the greatest and most important event in the Age of the Heroes – that age of wonder when the Immortals who dwelt on Olympus and whom they worshiped as gods, mingled with mankind and took a visible part in their affairs.

The fall of Troy marks the place...

Karlsson on the Roof

Author	Astrid Lindgren
ISBN	0749710373

Imagine Smidge's delight when, one day, a little man with a propeller on his back appears hovering at the window! It's Karlson and he lives in a house on the roof. Soon Smidge and Karlson are sharing all sorts of adventures, from tackling thieves and playing tricks to looping the loop and running across...

Abraham Lincoln's World

Author	Genevieve Foster
ISBN	1893103161

An interesting look at not only the man, but also the 19th century world in which he lived. Britain s enormous growth and emergence as a democracy, Germany united under Bismark, Russia freeing serfs, Japan opened to foreign trade and many other events are all shared in Foster s engaging text laced with...

George Washington Carver: Man's Slave Becomes God's Scientist

Author

David R. Collins

This is the first book I have read in the YA "Sower" series. It is written in 1st-person narrative and emphasizes Carver's Christian faith. I think it's a great biography for all ages, and especially for youth. Personally, I also find it interesting to look at the religious side of a person's background...

Madam How and Lady Why

Author	Charles Kingsley
ISBN	1599150239

It's like he's always talking down to the reader.

"Now little kid, I would tell you about this and this but you're too stupid, not old and wise and clever like me... Ah hah! Here is something you might comprehend! I will talk a bit about it. But THAT, oh, don't even try to think about such and such,...

God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality

Author	Phyllis Trible
ISBN	0800604644

Focusing on texts in the Hebrew Bible, and using feminist hermeneutics, Phyllis Trible brings out what she considers to be neglected themes and counter literature. After outlining her method in more detail, she begins by highlighting the feminist imagery used for God; then she moves on to traditions...

Exegetical Fallacies

Author	D.A. Carson
ISBN	0801020867

For what this book sets out to be, it's fantastic. As a quick overview of the most common word-grammar fallacies, logical fallacies, historical fallacies, etc., D.A. Carson does a lovely job of presenting solid explanations and brief examples that are often helpful and rarely confusing. A few times...