Readers of all ages have enjoyed the best-selling books of James Wight, written under the pseudonym James Herriot. Wight's memoirs chronicle over forty years of his life as a country vet in the uplands of Yorkshire, England--commencing with his first...

James Herriot, a vet turned best-selling author, penned twenty books during his lifetime, selling over sixty million copies. His gentle, humorous, heartwarming narratives of the life of a veterinarian in England's Yorkshire Dales during the 1940s and...

[All Things Wise and Wonderful] is the third of James Herriot's remembrances of the quiet rural joys of practicing veterinary medicine in Yorkshire. It is cut from the same bolt of nubbly cloth as his previous books…. In "All Things Wise and Wonderful," we find the good animal doctor coping with R.A.F. training at the outset of World War II. Don't worry, Herriot-lovers, this is not a book about the service. Although Herriot is in the R.A.F., his heart is in the lovely York...

What the world needs now, and does every so often, is a warm, G-rated, down-home, unadrenalized prize of a book that sneaks onto the bestseller lists for no apparent reason other than a certain floppy-eared puppy appeal. However, it is only partly because warm puppies—along with cows, horses, pigs, cats and the rest of the animal kingdom—figure as his main characters that James Herriot's [All Creatures Great and Small] qualify admirably….

James Herriot is at it again with that easy, ingratiating way of telling a story. Readers of his best-selling "All Creatures Great and Small" are undoubtedly ready to devour its sequel in one gulp. Which may not be the best way to approach this supplementary collection of reminiscences of the Yorkshire country vet before World War II. It deserves more leisurely treatment, a few chapters at a time. Again Mr. Herriot is evoking those faraway days when even veterinarians made house calls in the m...

The life of James Herriot