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ID
c89
Title
"Animals — All the Year Round."
Genre
Essay
Page Count
12
Word Count
1900
Publisher
Saturday Book
Publication Year
1942
Document Types
Full-text Online
Nature Writing
Topics
Animals

Wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker and commentary by Bates are in a style similar to that of their collaborations in Through the Woods (1936) and Down the River (1937).

Twelve half-page illustrations are accompanied by reflections on animals of the forest as well as farm animals. The commentary roughly follows the seasons, and the final illustration is a calendar for 1943.

In The 1943 Saturday Book (London, October 1942, pp. 241-252, attached).


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