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Animal Fiction
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Animal Fiction
Sukari Smith
2.7.14
RDG 291
Criteria for Animal Fiction
Reasons for Using Animal Fiction w/ Children
Definition
• appeal to children.
• Pets allow children to feel clever, protective, and nurturing.
• Animals help children compensate for their essentially powerless position.
• Very young children do not see animals as “other”; they believe that animals have human characteristics.
• Some of the most well-known picturebooks focus on animal protagonists – for example: Curious George, & Peter Rabbit
• Authors use animal characters because they can convey ideas by analogy, ideas which have greater impact than if child characters are used.
• Milne’s whiny, negative Eeyore is a case in point. Children may be more likely to recognize this trait in themselves if depicted humorously in an animal than if depicted in a child.
• believable and interesting characters
• authentic settings and well developed plots.
• use of logic, consistency and believability.
Animal Fiction is stories in which animals are the main characters. Animals are given human characteristics -- such as speech. We learn much about ourselves from and through them. Animal stories appear in a variety of forms but all include one or more animals as the focus of the story in which readers may strongly identify with.
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