Arthur Catherall
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Description
Arthur Catherall was an English author, mostly of works for children. His writing career was diverse and prolific, writing under his own name and also at least seven pseudonyms. He wrote magazine short stories, single novels and series novels for all age groups and genders. By 1973 his U.K. publishers, J.M. Dent and Sons, claimed that sales of his books exceeded one million copies. - Wikipedia
Books
Puppy Lost in Lapland
Left to fend for himself in the wilderness of Lapland, a puppy grows to become the leader of a wolf pack.
Boy on a White Giraffe
To escape a fire, a crippled boy climbs on the back of a newly captured albino giraffe only to be carried into a new and greater danger.
Red Sea rescue
Following an unexpected sandstorm a fourteen-year-old Arab boy and his twelve-year-old sister must accept the responsibility of tending the lighthouse and saving the life of their father, the lighthouse keeper.
Elli of the Northland
Two policemen suddenly interrupt the life of a Lapp girl when they come to take her to her father, thought to be dead but now a rich man living in southern Finland. Elli's efforts to evade the police and remain with the people and animals who need her bring dangers to all those she loves.
Freedom for a cheetah
Set free after spending the first two years of her life in captivity, a cheetah is unprepared for survival in the wild.
Kalu and the Wild Boar
A thirteen-year-old boy of India tangles courageously with a tiger and a wild boar to save his father's crops
Vanishing Lapland
Describes the daily life and customs of the nomadic people who roam the territory north of the Arctic Circle.
Last horse on the sands
A brother and sister risk their lives and that of an old cart horse while trying to rescue victims of a plane crash before the tide comes in.
Duel in the high hills
After his father is severely wounded by a snow leopard, thirteen-year-old Temba must face the dangers of the Himalayan hills alone to get help.
Jungle trap
A young Hindu boy sees a guide stab his British master, and works to save himself and the injured man from the greed of the men who would kill him.
Ten fathoms deep
A seventeen-year-old boy joins his father, a tug master, in Singapore and finds himself opposing a group trying to prevent salvage of a sunken ship.
Sicilian Mystery
A British youth and his Sicilian companion are instrumental in breaking an international dope-smuggling operation that involves the use of giant turtles.
Antlers of the king moose
A large bull moose finds himself in a life-and-death struggle against both man and wolves.
The strange intruder
First published in Great Britain in 1964 under title: The strange invader.
Prisoners in the Snow
Summary, Two Austrian children, their lame grandfather, and a sick pilot are trapped inside their house when a plane crash causes a great avalanche to come down on their farm.
