All Creatures Great and Small

All Creatures Great and Small was the title given to a U.S. volume first published in 1972 comprising James Herriot's first two novels, If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldn't Happen To A Vet, which were considered too short to publish individually in the U.S. market. The name was borrowed from the second line of the hymn All Things Bright and Beautiful, and derived from a punning suggestion by Herriot's daughter, who thought the volume should be titled Ill Creatures Great and Small.

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1972 - James Herriot - Hymn - All Things Bright and Beautiful

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Herriot's books were part autobiography and part fiction, based on his life as a young veterinary surgeon working with Donald and Brian Sinclair in and around Thirsk, Yorkshire just before and during the Second World War. For more about the books, see the main article James Herriot.

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Veterinary surgeon - Donald - Brian Sinclair - Thirsk - Yorkshire - Second World War - James Herriot

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