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Illustration of a deer in the center of a wreath of evergreen boughs from the back cover of a 1929 edition of Bambi, A Life in the Woods (art by Kurt Wiese)
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A Prince Among Deer: Felix Salten’s Bambi: A Life in the Woods

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A butterfly lands on Bambi's tail in a scene from Disney's Bambi
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Deer-ly Beloved: Walt Disney’s Bambi

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Illustration from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: Susan and Lucy loop a garland of flowers around Aslan. Art by Pauline Baynes
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The Chosen of Aslan: Narnia’s Talking Animals

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Illustration from The Wind in the Willows (art by E.H. Shepard)
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Epic on the Riverbank: Revisiting The Wind in the Willows

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Image by Arthur Rackham from Aesop's Fables (1912)
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The Universal Appeal of the Talking Animal

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detail from the cover of Outfoxed by Rita Mae Brown
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Fox at the Pinnacle: Rita Mae Brown’s Hierarchy of Creation

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detail from the cover of Wish You Were Here by Rita Mae Brown
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The Collected Works of Sneaky Pie Brown: The Mrs. Murphy Mysteries

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detail from the cover of The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun
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Playing Dr. Watson to a Cat: Lilian Jackson Braun’s Cat Who… Series

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detail from the cover of Sabriel by Garth Nix
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White Cat at the Gates of Death: Garth Nix’s Sabriel

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detail from the cover of Into the Wild, the first book in the Warrior Cats series by Erin Hunter
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Warrior Ethos, Cat Style: Erin Hunter’s Warriors: Into the Wild

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Image from KPop Demon Hunters featuring Derpy Tiger and Sussie Bird
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The Power of a Cute Animal Sidekick

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So-yeon (Park Min-young) holds a white cat in the 2011 Korean horror film The Cat
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A Feline Haunting: The Quiet Horror of The Cat

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