Fables for Grown-Up Children
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You could read this to a child, but it's meant for you. Will you see yourself in Rabbit? Or perhaps in Squirrel or Pigeon? Inspired by Aesop's Fables, Beatrix Potter, Arnold Lobel (Frog and Toad series) and the like, these anthropomorphized animals happen to share your problems and neuroses. On the reading list "Children at Heart" compiled by the official Wattpad profile for Children's fiction.
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