Looking for an interesting series, where the books are written from animals point of view. Kind of like Orwell’s Animal Farm, but more fantasy / sci-fi / action.

We may follow a group of fighting turtle, or a rat’s journey to home after getting lost, things like that. If taking example from movies, Ant Z is an example.

Any recommendations?

    • dresden@discuss.onlineOPMEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Thanks, will check out some reviews to see if they hold up for adults. Or will just get them for my kid.

      • aubertlone@lemmy.world
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        8 hours ago

        There’s also a TV series I just found out about.

        I can’t recommend it as I’ve never watched it.

        But I will probably check it out. Nostalgia and everything etc etc

        I’m 31. Not that it matters btw. Just remember reading this book series like crazy growing up.

        • dresden@discuss.onlineOPMEnglish
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          5 minutes ago

          Yeah, I saw it mentioned on Wikipedia when reading about the books. Didn’t check the details though, as I was mainly interested in the books.

      • aubertlone@lemmy.world
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        8 hours ago

        To be honest I can’t recommend them highly enough

        I absolutely tore through them when I was in grade school

        I love reading about all the different species and their outlooks from Redwall Abbey

        • dresden@discuss.onlineOPMEnglish
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          6 minutes ago

          Thanks for the recommendation. With how much everyone seemed to like them, I think I’ll just get first couple of books and see if I like them enough to continue.

    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      Second for Redwall, but also I read those in middle school 20 years ago. They were some of my favorite books when I was 10-13 but I felt very grown up reading them because they deal with themes like love and loss and sacrifice.

  • Wolf314159@startrek.website
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    2 days ago

    Watership Down by Richard Adams deserves a mention I think. It’s not exactly a series, but it did get a sequel. Richard Adams also wrote The Plague Dogs and Shardik. Shardik doesn’t actually take the POV of the animals, but Lord Shardik is a mythical bear that is kind of a main character. I haven’t read The Plague Dogs yet, and only learned about it while checking my spellings for this comment, but everything else.by Adams that I’ve read has been amazing.

  • misericordiae@literature.cafe
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    2 days ago

    Only adult one I can think of is Tailchaser’s Song by Tad Williams (cats). There’s a ton of these for kids, though; here’s a few I’ve read:

    • Redwall series by Brian Jacques (forest critters; I found it repetitive after the first few, but ymmv)
    • Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien (rats)
    • Stewart Little by E.B. White (mouse)
    • Charlotte’s Web by by E.B. White (pig)

    Edit: Sorry, I derped on the scifi/fantasy/action aspect of the request; the E.B. White books don’t fall into that category.

    • dresden@discuss.onlineOPMEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I like Tad Williams work, will check out Tailchaser’s Song. It looks pretty interesting.

      And no worries, could still be fun to check out.

  • sevan@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    If its for older kids (8-12 and able to read reasonably well) you could check out the Warriors, Survivors, and Seekers series by “Erin Hunter”. This is not an actual author, but a group that churns out tons of books from the standpoint of cats, dogs, and bears.

    My kids adored the Warriors books (fantasy stories where all the characters are cats) and they are still into fan fiction as mid-teens. My wife and I read the first one with them when they were around 5-6 years old and it was so awful we refused to ever read another with them again. I think my oldest learned to read about that time just so she could keep reading them after that. At this point I think they own 20-30 of these books and enjoyed them immensely.

    This week my kids both started reading Journey to the West, which is a set of 16th century Chinese novels written by Wu Cheng’en. I don’t think it is quite what you’re asking for, but I gather that a significant portion of it revolves around Sun Wukong, the Monkey King. I think they bought this Kindle version for $4. Apparently the Monkey King is the character in the recent game Black Myth: Wukong, which has made the book popular again.

  • Twodozeneggs@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    “The children of time” by Adrian Tchaikovsky might be something like what your looking for.

    Sci Fi with spiders point of view. Highly recommend if you don’t have arachnophobia.

  • Okokimup@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton is amazing, although the follow up isn’t as good.

    Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time is also amazing, though, again, the follow up isn’t as good.

    If singular books are OK, there’s Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr by John Crowley.

    I could give more titles because I love books from the animal perspective, but these are my sci-fi/fantasy recs. I also second Watership Down.

  • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    A Night in the Lonesome October - Roger Zelazny… this is almost exactly what you are asking for.

    Iron Druid chronicles has a small bit of it.

    White Fang and Call of the Wild are classic examples of it.