4 starsAll Creatures Great and Small / All Things Bright and Beautiful books 1 -4 are wonderful books, together in the All Creatures Great and Small series by the talented James Herriot.This takes me back, remembering times when we read these books and watched the TV series with family.This is James Herriot's biographical work of his life as a vet in the 1940s in Yorkshire. It is fun to see what he went through with not only the animals but also with his clients. I loved the laugh-out-loud momen...

If I could give Herriot's work 6 stars, then I would. And how anyone gives it less than 5, I'll never understand. This has taken its place as one of my all-time favorite novels (though it's two in one, I'm counting this volume as one work). I felt throughly at home in Herriot's honest, humorous, and heartfelt writing. I was inspired by his journey, beginning as a young man in a new career, to an older and experienced expert in his field. The characters are impossible to hate; Herriot brings each...

Excellent book. I really enjoyed it!

I listened to the audio version with the actor who plays James Herriot on the new PBS series. That made it even more fun. I loved learning about his adventures and more about country life in the Yorkshire Dales!

This is a beatuiful edition of two books. I recently bought it because my original books have fallen to pieces from multiple readings over the years. I am cutting and pasting my original review.This is an old favorite that I've read countless times. What do I like about it? Let me count the ways.First of all, I like the way Herriot (or Alf Wight, if you like) turns a phrase. His use of absurd imagery to create a comical effect is superb. I found myself re-reading certain paragraphs just because ...

I usually eschew anything which might be considered heart-warming. It's an allergy, I think. Anyway, I love these books. Mostly because Herriot includes just enough of the stupid and gross to keep the reader for drowning in a bucket of twee. Rural vet is not for the squeamish.

If you love animals and country ways there is nothing more enchanting than these stories from the rural England of another era.

I recently paid a nostalgic return journey to fictional Darrowby in Yorkshire, England, to read the warm, affectionate, earthy, hilarious memoirs of Dr. James Herriot, veterinary surgeon (circa mid 1930s -- 1970s). I couldn't put them down, nor could I read anything else until I'd consumed the entire series. Love his courtship with Helen, his partnership with Sigfried and Tristan, his convivial embrace of his warped fellowman, and his service to hairy critters everywhere. (Must add I'm also fond...

The first scene caught my attention right off. He's saying, they never tell you about this in school, then he describes the scene he's in: its a dark, winter night, he's got his arm inside of a cow up to the elbow trying to maneuver the calf inside her. He's stripped to the waist, lying on the ground as the cow is and the only light is the lamp that the farmer is holding. That got my attention. This entire book is of one who lucks out and lands a great job and then discovers that he loves his jo...

My ABSOLUTE fave!!