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All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)

James Herriot

Start date: August 1, 2025

Finish date: August 31, 2025

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Aug 16, 2016 Natalie Tyler rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: excellent-books

“All Creatures Great and Small” is book one in a beloved series by James Herriott, a Yorkshire veterinarian who has chronicled his mid-20th century practice with great loving detail. Herriott begins by comparing the clinical details of his veterinary textbook with the reality of trying to deliver a baby calf in the midst of muck and mud and snow. He’s feeling defeated; the calf needs to be turned around the the mother is small. He manages to extricate the calf, who appears to be dead as does the ...more

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Feb 09, 2021 Michael rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, read-in-2021, re-read, spider-man, tie-in-novel, summer-r, winter-reading-2021

My parents gave me a copy of All Creatures Great and Small for my eighth-grade graduation. I spent the summer before going into high school with James Herriot, exploring the world of the Yorkshire Dales.

As a fan of Doctor Who, my main interest in the BBC series based on the book was that it gave us Peter Davison as the Doctor.

Now, the series is being rebooted for the small screen and I decided it was time to visit Herriot's world again.

What strikes me about this book now -- as it did then -- is ...more

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Mar 11, 2008 Terri rated it it was amazing

Shelves: non-fiction, biography-autobiography-memoirs

This was fun to revisit on audio after all these years. Still just as enjoyable!

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Jan 06, 2019 Sheila rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Loved it! It's charming, it's serious, it's funny, and it's lovely. I listened to it off and on for 4 days, and could have listened a lot longer. ...more

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