C.S.Lewis: “When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
“What’s Happening?” | A Gift from Chapter II of Miss Missy’s School
“What’s happening? What, what, what?” Bebe asked again while simultaneously throwing a stick in the air and running circles around the potted tulips and chasing Tiger’s tail.
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“Rescue” | A Gift from Chapter I of Miss Missy’s School
At that, out from the shadows and into the light from high atop the pole stepped a poor scrawny little fox hound, shaking and crouching over her pup. She begged, “Please, please. C-c-can me and my son crawl under your porch?
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Animal Stories
Now, as you know, most dogs don’t usually wear reading glasses and Homburg hats unless their people dress them up (as Beatrix Potter did her pets). Most animals don’t write in shorthand like Missy, or read British detective stories as Rocky likes to do. And most animals don’t talk in real life! To give human characteristics to nonhuman creatures and things is to anthropomorphize them.
