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All Creatures Great and Small Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

All Creatures Great and Small is the first book in a series published for the US market. Other books in the series, which continue James Herriot’s partially-fictionalized memoirs, include All Things Bright and Beautiful, All Things Wise and Wonderful, The Lord God Made Them All, and Every Living Thing. In addition, the films All Creatures Great and Small and It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet came out in the 1970s and are based on Herriot’s books. A beloved TV adaptation of the first two books, called All Creatures Great and Small, aired from the late 1970s to 1990. In 2011, BBC aired the three-part TV series Young James Herriot, which follows Herriot during his time as a student at Glasgow...

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