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William Bartlett Peet (né Peed; [1] January 29, 1915 – May 11, 2002) [2] was an American children's book illustrator and a story writer and animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios. [3] Peet joined Disney in 1937 and worked first on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) near the end of its production.
A dwarf (pl. dwarfs or dwarves) is a type of supernatural being in Germanic folklore. Accounts of dwarfs vary significantly throughout history; however, they are commonly, but not exclusively, presented as living in mountains or stones and being skilled craftsmen. In early literary sources, only males are explicitly referred to as dwarfs.
Only the Animals is a 2014 short story collection by Ceridwen Dovey. It is her second book after Blood Kin (2008). It is a collection of ten interrelated short stories about the souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century and tells their stories of life and death.
Owen Meany, the friend of the narrator and major focus of the story, is a dwarf with a fixed voicebox. [4] "Hop-Frog, or The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs" by Edgar Allan Poe. The titular character Hop-Frog and his friend Tripetta are dwarfs. [5] A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin.
Often described as "hairy-faced dwarfs" in stories, petroglyph illustrations show them with horns on their head and traveling in a group of 5 to 7 per canoe. [1] "How Morning Star Lost Her Fish", from Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children by Mabel Powers, 1917
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 as ...
Character/s Author Work Notes Urchin M. I. McAllister: The Mistmantle Chronicles: A red squirrel with peculiar coloring. Bannertail Ernest Thompson Seton: Bannertail: The Story of a Graysquirrel: A gray squirrel. Orphaned as a baby, he was taken in and raised by a cat. Adapted into an anime series. Felldoh: Brian Jacques: Martin the Warrior: A ...
The novel begins in 1961 when a middle-aged man by the name of Billy Colman rescues a redbone hound from neighborhood dogs and takes it home to recover. The incident reminds him of the faithful dogs he owned as a child in the Ozarks. The story then travels decades prior to a ten-year-old Billy seeking a pair of redbone hounds for coon hunting.