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The use of talking animals enables storytellers to combine the basic characteristics of the animal with human behavior, to apply metaphor, and to entertain children as well as adults. [1] Animals are used in a variety of ways in fictional works including to illustrate morality lessons for children, to instill wonder in young readers, [ 1 ] and ...
Moral Lesson: Just be yourself if you want people to like you. Song: If You Make a New Robe for Me. Mother Goose on the Loose – The other Dino Babies want to try telling stories, however, this causes Truman to think they don't like his stories anymore. Moral Lesson: Sometimes it can be easy to misunderstand good intentions.
An animal tale or beast fable generally consists of a short story or poem in which animals talk. They may exhibit other anthropomorphic qualities as well, such as living in a human-like society. It is a traditional form of allegorical writing.
Originally the other animals besides the hen consist of a rat, a cat, a dog, a duck, and a pig. [1] Later adaptations often reduce the number of other animals to three. The story was likely intended as a literature primer for young readers, but departed from highly moralistic, often religious stories written for the same purpose.
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The earliest reference to the Blue Jackal can be found in Panchatantra, a collection of stories which depict animals in human situations (see anthropomorphism, Talking animals in fiction). In each of the stories every animal has a "personality" and each story ends in a moral. [citation needed]
The story of the tortoise and the birds appears in a section illustrating the sentiment that 'a man hath no greater enemy than himself'. The French fabulist Jean de la Fontaine also found the story in an early digest of Bidpai's work and added it to his fables as La Tortue et les deux Canards (X.3). For him the story illustrates human vanity ...
Animal Stories is a British pre-school animated television series on ITV . It also aired on Disney Channel's Playhouse Disney block in the United States from 1998 to 2001 and on Disney Channel in the rest of Asia. The series gained a 2001 Children's BAFTA for Best Pre-school Animation. [1]