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Do you remember when you were younger looking with admiration at all sort of animals? There is something fascinating about animals. Everybody loves them (well, most of us), but children seem to be particularly enamoured with fuzzy, little faces. Maybe they love them so much because a lot of them are as small as they are, and perhaps because animals are so fascinatingly different. I can not tell why, but I do know that the attraction is true.

Books featuring animals and stories about them are always the children’s favourite books. Animal books were all she wanted to read for a long time, and they are still her favourite.

The first animal books that she looked at were simple picture books. All she wanted was to look at images of various animals and see what they can do or where they live. Though her most favorite animal books were the ones about animals that she could see every day, I have found that she is now more interested in the ones that we don’t see.

She wants to go to Australia and hold a koala bear. Sometimes, she pretends she is a baby koala, and when you ask her what her favorite animal is she might say a baby kangaroo, which she calls a Joey.

She started enjoying animal books that come with a story as she got older. Perhaps it is easier for her to use her imagination with animals as opposed to human beings. I’m not really sure.

This could be the reason why stories like Donald Duck are so popular from one generation to the other. The way to learn about human interaction because they show animals in a very human way.  Read more...