'This book includes extracts from: The Call of the Wild by Jack London Esio Trot by Roald Dahl I, Houdini by Lynne Reid Banks The Crowstarver by Dick King-Smith Black Beauty by Anna Sewell The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame The Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann Seal Secret by Aidan Chambers The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay Farthing Wood, the Adventure Begins by Colin Dann Stories From Firefly Island by Ben Blathwayt Includes following contemporary stories: Stella by Adele Geras; Silly Old Moo by Michael Morpurgo; Poor Arthur by Gene Kemp'(Publication summary)