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{{cite news|title= Narnia triumphs over Harry Potter|author= Sophie Borland|newspaper= The Telegraph|date= 22 February 2008|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1579456/Narnia-triumphs-over-Harry-Potter.html|access-date= 2 April 2018|archive-date= 6 December 2019|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191206042720/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1579456/Narnia-triumphs-over-Harry-Potter.html|url-status= live}}</ref> examples being ''[[The Tale of Peter Rabbit]]'' (1901) and later books by [[Beatrix Potter]];{{efn|The [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] wrote: "Beatrix Potter is still one of the world's best-selling and best-loved children's authors. Potter wrote and illustrated a total of 28 books, including the 23 Tales, the 'little books' that have been translated into more than 35 languages and sold over 100 million copies."<ref>{{citation |contribution=Beatrix Potter |contribution-url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/prints_books/features/potter/index.html |title=''Official website'' |url=http://www.vam.ac.uk |publisher=Victoria and Albert Museum |access-date=2 June 2010 |archive-date=23 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110223114502/http://www.vam.ac.uk/ |url-status=live }}</ref>}} ''[[The Wind in the Willows]]'' by [[Kenneth Grahame]] (1908); ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh (book)|Winnie-the-Pooh]]'' (1926) and ''[[The House at Pooh Corner]]'' (1928) by [[A. A. Milne]]; and ''[[The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe]]'' (1950) and the subsequent books in ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' series by [[C. S. Lewis]].
In many of these stories the animals can be seen as representing facets of human personality and character.<ref name = "gamble">{{cite book|last1=Gamble|first1=Nikki|last2= Yates|first2= Sally|title=Exploring Children's Literature|year=2008|publisher=Sage Publications Ltd|isbn=978-1-4129-3013-0}}</ref> As [[John Rowe Townsend]] remarks, discussing ''The Jungle Book'' in which the boy [[Mowgli]] must rely on his new friends the bear [[Baloo]] and the black panther [[Bagheera]], "The world of the jungle is in fact both itself and our world as well".<ref name = "gamble" /> A notable work aimed at an adult audience is [[George Orwell]]'s ''[[Animal Farm]]'', in which all the main characters are anthropomorphic animals.
The [[Juvenile fantasy|fantasy]] genre developed from mythological, fairy tale, and [[Romance (heroic literature)|Romance]] motifs<ref>John Grant and John Clute, ''[[The Encyclopedia of Fantasy]]'', p 621, {{ISBN|0-312-19869-8}}</ref> sometimes have anthropomorphic animals as characters. The [[Best selling books|best-selling]] examples of the genre are ''[[The Hobbit]]''<ref>100 million copies sold: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/7302101.stm BBC] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110512175654/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/7302101.stm |date=12 May 2011 }}: Tolkien's memorabilia go on sale. 18 March 2008</ref> (1937) and ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''{{efn|150 million sold, a 2007 estimate of copies of the full story sold, whether published as one volume, three, or some other configuration.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/203389 |title=The Toronto Star |date=16 April 2007 |access-date=24 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110309035210/http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/203389 |archive-date=9 March 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}} (1954–1955), both by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], books peopled with talking creatures such as ravens, spiders, and the dragon [[Smaug]] and a multitude of anthropomorphic [[goblins]] and [[elves]]. John D. Rateliff calls this the "[[Doctor Dolittle]] Theme" in his book ''The History of the Hobbit''<ref>{{Cite book |title= The History of the Hobbit: Return to Bag-end|last= Rateliff|first= John D.|year= 2007|publisher= [[HarperCollins]]|location= London|isbn= 978-0-00-723555-1|page=654}}</ref> and Tolkien saw this anthropomorphism as closely linked to the emergence of human language and [[myth]]: "...The first men to talk of 'trees and stars' saw things very differently. To them, the world was alive with mythological beings... To them the whole of creation was 'myth-woven and elf-patterned'."<ref>{{cite book | title = The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends | last = Carpenter | first = Humphrey | year = 1979 | isbn = 978-0-395-27628-0 | page = [https://archive.org/details/inklingscslewisj00carp/page/43 43] | publisher = Houghton Mifflin | location = Boston | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/inklingscslewisj00carp/page/43 }}</ref>
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