title: James Herriot's Animal Stories
author:  James Herriot 
description: A new critter collection from the visionary vet; the first printing is 500,000 copies.<br />Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  ## ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  
  
  James Herriot’s children, Rosie Page and Jim Wight; the staff at The World of
  James Herriot, Thirsk; Kate Croft at Shed Media; Albert DePetrillo and Laura
  Higginson at BBC Books; Georgia Glover at David Higham; Julian Alexander, Ben
  Clark, Petra Lewis at Lucas Alexander Whitley; Peter Jinman OBE, MRCVS,
  President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons; Ken Mitchell; Nigel
  Carter; the staff of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow; the staff of the Archives,
  Glasgow University.
  
  
  I am also grateful to J. A. Allen for permission to reprint extracts from
  Eddie Straiton’s _Animals Are My Life_ , and to Sovereign Books for permission
  to reprint extracts from Hugh Lasgarn’s _Vet in Green Pastures_.
  
  
  But my greatest thanks go to my wife, Penny Lewis-Stempel, without whom I
  would never have started, let alone finished.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## About the Book
  
  
  We all know James Herriot, the author of the legendary _All Creatures Great
  and Small_ , but how did a young student named 