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(for children), originating from fables and folklore, have been predominantly didactic from Dorothy Kilner's The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse (1783) to Black Beauty and Marshall Saunders's Beautiful Joe ...

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animal stories
in The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7) Length: 105 words
Animal Stories
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