Anthropomorphism


Animal Farm
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
The Wind in the Willows
Redwall (Redwall, #1)
Charlotte’s Web
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Rats of NIMH, #1)
Mossflower (Redwall, #2)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
Mattimeo (Redwall, #3)
Stuart Little
The Tale of Despereaux
Into the Wild (Warriors, #1)
Mariel of Redwall (Redwall, #4)
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
Martin the Warrior (Redwall, #6)
Watership Down by Richard  AdamsCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisAnimal Farm by George OrwellMrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
Best Talking-Animal Books
797 books — 741 voters
Stardust by Neil GaimanHowl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne JonesDogsbody by Diana Wynne JonesStarless by Jacqueline CareyStar Daughter by Shveta Thakrar
Stars as Characters in Fiction
21 books — 4 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonWhite Fang by Jack LondonDenali Skies by Danielle RohrWatership Down by Richard  Adams
Anthropomorphism In Literature
46 books — 11 voters
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson BraunDog on It by Spencer QuinnThree Bags Full by Leonie SwannWish You Were Here by Rita Mae BrownWine and Dine by Tessa Aura
Animal Detectives
216 books — 49 voters


Maria DeBlassie
I'll let you in on a little secret: This book is magic. All books are. So much so that they are picky about who picks them up and reads them. ...more
Maria DeBlassie, Practically Pagan - An Alternative Guide to Magical Living

Peter Pink-Howitt
..we create a culture and language that necessarily assumes we are special. In the face of all the mounting evidence to the contrary, our culture and language suggest that we may be guilty of anthropomorphising life-forms that show us that the assumed ‘human’ qualities are not only human ones. Talk about stacking the deck against other animals. It is an ugly Orwellian feedback loop. Any approach to truth is lost in a deep corruption of logic and language. This wrong-headedness and unfairness s ...more
Peter Pink-Howitt, Ethics of Life: freedom and diversity

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