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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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