"My Family and Other Animals" by Gerald Durrell I've read my first retold book. It's "My Family and Other Animals" by Gerald Durrell. This story about vacation of Durrell's family on Corfu island. There were five person: Gerald, Mother, Lesly, Larry, Margo and their dog. They didn't know Greek. One man whose name was Spiro known American. So he became their friend. Spiro helped them to find villas and bought food. They invited a lot of friends so they changed villas three time as a result. Their gardens were full of animals and insects. Gerald loved animals very much and was exploring them. So he got magpies, snakes, scorpions, one big wild bird on Corfu. His mother was very calm person but she was worried that Gerald had not any lessons. Then she became search some teacher for the son. One of teachers was Peter who advised to Gerald to write something in English everyday. So that way Gerald began to write his books.