Children's Fiction Featuring Pets or Other Animals

Mouse House by Rumer Godden

• Pub Date: 1957 (original)
• Grades 1-3 interest
• A little mouse goes in search of a house. 

Mister Cleghorn's Seal by Judith Kerr

• Pub Date: 2015
• Grades 1-4 Interest
• Mr. Cleghorn rescues a seal pup left on his own. 

Hissy Fitz by Patrick Jennings

• Pub Date: 2015
• Grades 2-4 interest 
• On the blog: What Cats Want

Little Cat's Luck by Marion Dance Bauer

• Pub Date: 2016 
• Grades 2-5 interest
• See also: In Verse 
• My review: here

My Pet Human by Yasmine Surovec 

• Pub Date: 2015
• Grades 2-4 interest

The Tiny Hero of the Ferny Creek Library by Linda Bailey

• Pub Date: 2017
• Grades 3-5 interest
• See also: Books & Libraries
• On the blog: Library Heroes  
• A bug who lives in a school loves books and tries to save the library from being turned into a testing center. 

The Story of Diva and Flea by Mo Willems

• Pub Date: 2015
• Grades 2-4 interest
• A dog and a cat explore each other's worlds. 

Beyond the Laughing Sky by Michelle Cuevas

• Pub Date: 2014
• Grades 4-7 interest
• See also: Science, Outcasts, Starting Middle School, Research
• When Nashville accidentally injures a bird, he helps it to fly again.

Wishtree by Katherine Applegate 

• Pub Date: 2017
• Grades 4-6 interest 
• See also: Nature
• In this book, narrated by a tree, there are all sorts of animal characters. 

Catlantis by Anna Starobinets

• Pub Date: 2016
• Grades 4-6 interest  
• See also: Imported 
• A silly fantasy about cats with magical powers. 

Granted by John David Anderson

• Pub Date: 2018
• Grades 4-6 interest
• See also: Searching, Wishes 
• A fairy gets a chance to grant her first wish, but it's not as easy as she thought it would be. Along the way she makes friends with a dog.

Forest of Wonders by Linda Sue Park

• Pub Date: 2016
• Grades 4-6 interest
• Raffa accidentally gives a bat the ability to talk and the two of them become friends. 

This Little Piggy: An Owner's Manual by Cyndi Marko

• Pub Date: 2017
• Grades 1-3 interest
• A girl tries to convince her family to get a pet pig. 

Most Perfect Thing in the Universe by Tricia Springstubb

• Pub Date: 2021
• Grades 4-6 interest
• Loah has an interest in birds, and her mother is an ornithologist. 

Saucy by Cynthia Kadohata

• Pub Date: 2020
• Grades 4-6 interest
• Becca is determined to rescue a piglet she finds.