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Printable version; In other projects ... about animals, including anthropomorphic animals, written for children and young adults. See also: Category:Animal tales
Just So Stories First edition Author Rudyard Kipling Illustrator Rudyard Kipling Language English Genre Children's book Publisher Macmillan Publication date 1902 Publication place United Kingdom Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known ...
Animal Fairy Tales is a collection of short stories written by L. Frank Baum, the creator of the Land of Oz series of children's books. The stories (animal tales, comparable to Aesop's Fables or the Just-So Stories and Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling) first received magazine publication in 1905.
Animal tales can be understood in universal terms of how animal species relate to each other (for example, predators wishing to eat prey), rather than human groups in a specific society. Thus, readers are able to understand characters' motives, even if they do not come from the same cultural background as the author.
Another version satirizes capitalism by depicting the hen promising the animals slices of bread if they make it, but keeping the largest slice for herself despite not doing any work. A version by Malvina Reynolds adapts the story into a pro-work socialist anthem as the hen retains the fruits of her labor, saying "And that's why they called her ...
The Goat and Her Three Kids; The Goat Girl; The Goat-Faced Girl; The Gold-bearded Man; The Gold-Children; The Gold-spinners; Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree; The Golden Bird; The Golden Crab; The Golden Stag (fairy tale) The Goose Girl; The Grateful Beasts; The Grateful Prince; The Green Knight (fairy tale) The Green Serpent; The Green Snake and the ...
The stories in The Jungle Book were inspired in part by the ancient Indian fable texts such as the Panchatantra and the Jataka tales. [7] For example, an older moral-filled mongoose and snake version of the "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" story by Kipling is found in Book 5 of Panchatantra. [8] In a letter to the American author Edward Everett Hale, Kipling ...
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