Animal stories have delighted readers since antiquity, but the characters featured in them have often behaved like people dressed as animals. Aesop's fables, for example, were written to teach humans about morality, and the medieval "Beast Epic" satirized the society of the day. In Seton's stories, animal characters are allowed to be themselves. Seton believes animals lead lives as interesting as those led by most humans, and he carefully selects details to highlight the interesting features of his subjects' lives. For the most part, too, he avoids the cuteness that characterizes many animal tales, although he does use expressions such as "thimblefuls of down" and "sweet.....
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