All Things Bright And Beautiful: The Warm And Joyful Memoirs Of The World'S Most Beloved Animal Doctor (All Creatures Great And Small)

All Things Bright And Beautiful: The Warm And Joyful Memoirs Of The World'S Most Beloved Animal Doctor (All Creatures Great And Small)

The second volume in the multimillion copy bestselling seriesMillions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the over thirty years since his delightful animal stories were first introduced to the world.Now in a new edition for the first time in a decade, All Things Bright and Beautiful is the beloved sequel to Herriot's first collection, All Creatures Great and Small, and picks up as Herriot, now newly married, journeys among the remote hillside farms and valley towns of the Yorkshire Dales, caring for their inhabitants---both two- and four-legged. Throughout, Herriot's deep compassion, humor, and love of life shine out as we laugh, cry, and delight in his portraits of his many, varied animal patients and their equally varied owners.Review?James Herriot found a gentle, wise and often humorous way to write about animals and to evoke a beautiful but fading way of life in those Yorkshire Hills. He showed me how to focus not just on the animals, but on the people who lived with the animals, and their loving, sometimes difficult and very wonderful connections with one another. While he is known for his wonderful writing about animals, I often think of his ability to capture people. From the first, I've tried to capture that feeling, that uplifting and heartwarming style. I can't say that I have ever quite matched the writing of James Herriot, but he has always inspired me and given me something to aim for. He often makes me smile, sometimes makes me cry, you can't really ask more from a writer than that.? ?Jon Katz, New York Times bestselling author of Second Chance Dog, A Dog Year, A Good Dog, and many others?I recall reading All Creatures Great and Small many years ago, while working as a veterinary technician for a mobile vet in Los Angeles. We worked with cats and dogs, of course, but with farm animals, too, and apes and monkeys and angry pet raccoons, burros, crows, macaws- the variety of pets in Los Angeles was limitless. During that wonderful time, I'd be beaten senseless by a kangaroo, held hostage by a love-struck chimpanzee, chased by angry hogs, and sat on by a miniature horse inside of a well-known celebrity's home. It was a magical time, and it made perfect sense for me to read Herriot in the evenings, a grand fellow who'd roam the English countryside making veterinary house calls, effortlessly moving from draft horses to kittens, healing, telling stories. I felt a kinship with him and his magical world, and marveled at his talent for drawing me into his cast of characters. Later in life, when I too would write of my experiences with animals and their people, I would hearken to Herriot's Yorkshire Dales, and to prose so genuine that it would help inspire my own career as a writer and pet behaviorist. Herriot to me remains a superhero of sorts, who, in visiting home after home like some veterinary Santa, taught me how simple, heartwarming prose about people and their animals could rise above the commonplace, and become art.? ?Steve Duno, author of Last Dog on the Hill, The Everything Cat Book and The Amazing Dog Trick Book?The kind of book that makes an evening seem a little warmer and your pet a bit more important.? ?The Philadelphia Inquirer?A very warm, very engaging read . . . the reader falls totally under his spell.? ?The Associated Press?Whether sad or glad, each story shows his affection for animals and people . . . this man is a celebrant of life.? ?Chicago Tribune?Herriot is both tender and wise . . . All Things Bright and Beautiful is a book to be happy with.? ?The Boston Globe?You had better read this book yourself. It's a treat, a rare one, and God knows we all need all treat these days.? ?The Washington Post?Human beings just naturally respond to a writer as lovable, wholesome, eloquent, humorous and well-stocked with anecdotes as James Herriot. He offers a mastery of both the comic and the tragic.? ?Chicago Tribune?All