Are there any novels (fiction or non-fiction) that are based on animals rather than humans?
That’s a very odd definition – a novel absolutely does not have to be about human beings. Novels focused on animals, or told from their points of view, include: Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (narrated by a horse) Watership Down by Richard Adams (about rabbits) The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams (about dogs who have escaped from a laboratory) The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame (about a mole, a water rat, a badger and a toad) The Animals Of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann (about a number of woodland animals fighting for their habitat) Animal Farm by George Orwell (allegorical tale of farm animals staging a revolution) Tarka The Otter by Henry Williamson (life story of an otter) Duncton Wood by William Horwood (about a community of moles) These are just a few examples – there are lots more, especially in children’s fiction. Most them give the animals certain human traits in terms of language and emotions, but not all – Tarka The Otter, for instance, is very much the story of a real otter,
