Seventy-two true stories about animals gleaned from past issues of Reader's Digest. Authors range from the everyday citizen to famous authors like Jean Craighead George, James Thurber and Farley Mowat. There are excerpts from books like Rascal, The Dog Who Wouldn't Be and the First Lady of the Seeing Eye (about Seeing Eye dogs). Then A Runt of a Horse that people laughed at for being so small, but who won all his races and when his owners had to sell him due to health reasons, he lost the will to win and eventually died of a broken heart.

To read the stories is like a stroll down memory lane. The Day I Met Midnight is written by Ulmont Healy, a cowboy turned cowboy actor during the silent film era. Doc Pete's Friend Charlie is set during a time when doctors carried their black medical bags and made house calls --driving to their patients' home with a horse and buggy. What a wonderful way to bring the past to life for kids. The Dog From No-Man's Land, a great story of loyal friendship and life during WWII and the old Soviet Bloc regime.