English 2033E Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Kenneth Grahame, Wild Wood, Animal Stories
28 Sep 2017
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The animal story is a genre that includes many famous examples of children"s. Animal stories vary quite considerably in their level of anthropomorphism the. Kenneth grahame, the wind in the willows literature such as beatrix potter"s picture books, winnie the pooh, watership down, and. The popularity of such books suggests that a special bond exists between children and animals. That may be because animals are physically at a child"s eye level: up above is the foreign adult world, while down at a child"s eye level is the world of rabbits, toads, and mice. Like children, animals are dependent on adults (a situation that is more evident in charlotte"s web than in the wind in the. Willows) animals are the only creatures in the world with less power than children. Wind in the willows is one of the most anthropomorphic animals books for children in that it endows animals with human characteristics.
