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.
Animal Stories
Animal Stories Miss Missy’s School Book I: A Pack of Farm Dogs Starts a School by Marica Bernstein. Illustrated by Caroline Cooper. Old Schoolhouse Road […]