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Animal Stories: Fantasy

If your dog put on trousers and brought you the morning paper and a cup of coffee, you probably wouldn't accept them quietly and start reading the sports page. While most characters in literature who encounter talking animals aren't that nonchalant about it, they seem a lot more accepting of bizarre phenomena than most real people would be. Is it just because they're characters in books? or is it because animals actually have quite a bit to tell us about human nature and the realities of the world we occupy?

There are real-life precedents for talking animals—parrots can speak, crows can acquire human vocabularies, and Balaam's donkey carried on a conversation with the reluctant prophet. Granted, birds with the vocal capacity for imitative speech and supernaturally gifted pack animals aren't really in the same league, but you get the idea. Just because most animals don't talk doesn't mean none of them can.

We're not suggesting Narnia is a real place, or rabbits actually have detailed mythologies, at least not in the sense most people would use words like "real" and "actual." But there are books about Aslan, and there are books about Bigwig and Fiver, Matthias the Mouse, and Mr. Toad, and in that sense those places and characters are real and actual. More importantly, what they tell us about life itself (through their stories, not over afternoon tea) is often true and real and actual.

Basically, stories about animals who apparel themselves in anything other than their own skin and fur, animals that fight with swords instead of claws and teeth, animals who bake their food rather than eating it raw or off the ground, animals that speak (either to humans or each other)—any story we carry of this kind will be found here. While animal fantasy shouldn't displace all other reading, it's important to remember that, in the end, there's very little meaningful difference between a character like Tom Sawyer and one like Abel the Mouse.

Review by C. Hollis Crossman
C. Hollis Crossman used to be a child. Now he is a husband and father, teaches adult Sunday school in his Presbyterian congregation, and likes weird stuff. He might be a mythical creature, but he's definitely not a centaur. Read more of his reviews here.

 

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by Aesop, illustrated by Arthur Rackham
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in Ancient Literature (Location: LIT1-ANC)
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by Brian Jacques
from ACE Publishing
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from Firebird Press
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by C. S. Lewis
from HarperCollins
Allegorical Fantasy for 3rd-9th grade
in Boxed Sets & Literature Packages (Location: FIC-BOX)
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by C. S. Lewis
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in Boxed Sets & Literature Packages (Location: FIC-BOX)
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by C. S. Lewis
from HarperCollins
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in Boxed Sets & Literature Packages (Location: FIC-BOX)
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by Joel Chandler Harris
from Houghton Mifflin
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in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
Complete Tales of Uncle Remus
by Joel Chandler Harris, retold by Julius Lester, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
from Dial Press
Animal Fantasy for 7th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$50.00
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by Brian Jacques
from ACE Publishing
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$8.99
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by Brian Jacques
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for 4th-9th grade
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by Brian Jacques
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by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
for 4th-9th grade
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$9.99
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for 7th-12th grade
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$17.95
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by Walter R. Brooks
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for 4th-8th grade
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$11.99
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by Brian Jacques
from ACE Publishing
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by C. S. Lewis
from HarperCollins
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$8.99 $4.50 (1 in stock)
Last Battle
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by C. S. Lewis
from HarperCollins
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by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
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by C. S. Lewis
from HarperCollins
Allegorical Fantasy for 3rd-9th grade
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$9.99
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by Brian Jacques
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by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
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by Brian Jacques
from ACE Publishing
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$8.99
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by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
for 4th-8th grade
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$9.99
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Chronicles of Narnia Book 1
by C. S. Lewis
from HarperCollins
Allegorical Fantasy for 3rd-9th grade
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$8.99
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by Brian Jacques
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by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
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$9.99
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by Brian Jacques
from ACE Publishing
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$8.99
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by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
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$10.99
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from ACE Publishing
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by C. S. Lewis
from HarperCollins
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by Brian Jacques
from ACE Publishing
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by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
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by Brian Jacques
from ACE Publishing
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by Brian Jacques
1st edition from Firebird Press
for 4th-9th grade
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$10.99
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from Progeny Press
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for 2nd-8th grade
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Redwall #22
by Brian Jacques
from ACE Publishing
for 4th-9th grade
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$8.99
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by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
for 3rd-7th grade
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$9.99
Sable Quean
Redwall #21
by Brian Jacques
from ACE Publishing
for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$8.99
Sable Quean
Redwall #21
by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.99
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by Brian Jacques
from ACE Publishing
Fantasy for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$8.99
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Redwall #5
by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
Fantasy for 4th-9th grade
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by C. S. Lewis
from HarperCollins
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in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$7.99
Story of Doctor Dolittle
by Hugh Lofting
from Yearling
Animal Fantasy for 3rd-7th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$7.99
Story of Doctor Dolittle
by Hugh Lofting
from Dover Publications
Animal Fantasy for 3rd-7th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$3.99
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Redwall #14
by Brian Jacques
from ACE Publishing
Fantasy for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$8.99
Taggerung
by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$10.99
Tales of Uncle Remus
Puffin Modern Classics
by Julius Lester
Reissue from Puffin Books
for 3rd-7th grade
in Puffin Classics (Location: FIC-PUF)
$7.99
The Underneath
by Kathi Appelt
Reprint from Atheneum
for 5th-8th grade
2009 Newbery Honor Book
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$8.99
Triss
Redwall #15
by Brian Jacques
from ACE Publishing
Fantasy for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$8.99
Triss
by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.99
Trumpet of the Swan
by E. B. White
from HarperCollins
for 4th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$16.99
Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Chronicles of Narnia Book 5
by C. S. Lewis
from HarperCollins
Allegorical Fantasy for 3rd-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$8.99
Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
by Hugh Lofting
from Yearling
for 3rd-7th grade
1923 Newbery Medal winner
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$8.99
Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
by Hugh Lofting
from Dover Publications
for 3rd-7th grade
1923 Newbery Medal winner
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$14.95
Wind in the Willows
Everyman's Library Children's Classics
by Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by Arthur Rackham
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Historical Fiction for 4th-8th grade
$20.00
Wind in the Willows
Puffin Classics
by Kenneth Grahame
from Puffin Books
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in Puffin Classics (Location: FIC-PUF)
$8.99
Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by Robert Ingpen
from Sterling Publishing Co.
Humorous Animal Fantasy for 4th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$24.95
Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by Paul Bransom
from SeaWolf Press
Historical Fiction for 4th-8th grade
in Seawolf Illustrated Classics (Location: FIC-SW)
$8.95
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