Jim Kjelgaard 
Ulysses and His Woodland Zoo 

Nature has been called "The effect whose cause is God." IN the world of man, Ulysses stumbled and bumbled constantly, but in the world of the forest where he surprisingly became winter caretaker and lone occupant of an isolated hunters' lodge, he attained dignity, wisdom and assurance as he employed every faculty of his senses and opened his ear to its mysteries and its beauty and its animal residents.
One of Kjelgaard's finest books.