cerpt) / John Steinbeck -- Waiting for Anya (an excerpt) / Michael Morpurgo -- Androcles and the Lion / retold by Andrew Lang -- The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal / retold by Joseph Jacobs -- The Cat that walked by himself / Rudyard Kipling.@en ; schema:description A collection of stories about the animal kingdom from such writers as Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck, and Paul Gallico.@en ;