last updated: 11 December 2024
Animals in the easy town book series
Book 1
apes, ducks, cows, eagle, lion, worm, blue whale, butterflies, deer, hens, horses, fish, whale, shrimp
book 2/1, travelling, San Francisco, US
a jaguar
book 2/1, travelling, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
mice no rats, stuffed jaguars
book 2/1, travelling, Buenos Aires, Argentina
an imaginary fly
book 2/1, travelling, South Africa
loads of colourful animals mentioned, kangaroos, Socrates the rat, a confused chicken, some birds and insects, three black birds
book 2/1, travelling, Flight to Sydney, South Africa
a cat
book 2/1, travelling, Australia
a beehive, a zoo, a turtle, bears, lions, parrots, a deer, eagles, a bull, salmon, tuna, a wolf
book 2/1, travelling, Australia, time off
seagulls calling, a beetle, apes
book 2/2, travelling, Flight to Beijing, China
apes
book 2/2, travelling, China
dragons, eagle, birds twittering, birds and insects, a green pigeon, a whole list of animals and: leopards, tigers, wild elephants, monkeys, a yellow butterfly, a turtle, fish, frogs, mosquitoes, flies, other insects, more birds, brown ducks, more birds, a shiny blue bird, a herd of gaurs, a grasshopper
book 2/2, travelling, Otaon
peacocks, eagle, dolphins, seagulls, a marsh tchagra, mammals, reptiles, birds and fish, a viper, a hare, another eagle, a deer, the sculpture of a leopard, colourful fish, a collection of parrots, canary birds, scorpions, snakes, camels, horses, birds, another eagle, another snake, more camels
book 2/2, travelling, Romania
a black bird, geese, cats, dogs, horses, goats, bears, a wolf, gaurs, rubber ducks, a bear made of fairy lights
book 2/2, travelling, Russia
a bull, bears and wolves, the forest wildlife, a woodpecker, a black beetle, ants, birds, bees, a cock, a dog, a cat
book 2/2, travelling, Berlin
an eagle, cattle, gaurs, rabbits, a fox, a bull, a wolf
The real fly didn’t make it into the final draft of book 2, though it had a nice scene with the Illustrious Circle.
Also, there should have been a real tiger in the Otaon chapter, but it didn’t make it into the final draft. I regret that a little.
Book 3/1, shaping
A horse, ants, bees, ducks; monsters at Halloween, including a firebird, one of those multi-headed monsters, an octopus, basilisks, a lion, a frog, a butterfly; also an eagle or potentially two, plus more horses and seahorses.
Book 3/2, shaping
chickens, horses, seagulls
Book 3/3, shaping
a lame duck and a playful kitten, a Golden Retriever, a flushed ostrich, horses, ducks, water striders, a woodpecker, probably an owl, birds after rain, more horses
Book 4/1
horses
Book 4/2
horses
Book 4/3
horses
Book 4/4
chickens (there will be some fun with chickens), horses, more farm animals
Book 5
classified
Book 6
dogs
Book 7
animals in town
Books 8-12
Nah, it’s too early to reveal more.
And of course the lists for books 3-7 are incomplete and preliminary.