Brer Rabbit Collection

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It's worth noting that the tar baby story also appears, in similar form, in the Jatakas, a 4th-century BCE Indian collection of stories depicting the Buddha in former lifetimes. Apparently, a similar story also exists in ancient native North American culture, along with other stories that are similar to tales here. This could imply at least two possibilities. Do all human cultures share stories with similar basic elements, which manifest themselves as expressions of basic human needs? Or is it evidence of early cross-fertilization between cultures which have since evolved, divided, sub-divided and moved about across the globe?

The Play's the Thing, illustrator Alfred Bestall, music Alex Rowley, as Plays for Older Children and Plays for Younger Children, 1940 This is number 1 in a series entitled 'Enid Blyton's Little Books' and it contains five short stories concerning Brer Rabbit plus an extra story entitled 'The Tale of the Silkworms'. The Brer Rabbit stories are: 'Oh, Brer Rabbit!', 'Brer Rabbit and Mister Lion', 'Brer Rabbit and Mister Ram', 'Brer Rabbit is a Brave Fellow', 'Brer Wolf's Mistake'. Potter herself “never publicly admitted the source of any inspiration for her drawings, plotlines or protagonists”, Zobel Marshall says. Hollindale argued in his lecture that this may have been because she “misunderstood her own talent and, to the end of her life, was afraid of being caught out as a cheat”.Copies of Harris’s Brer Rabbit folktale collections, bearing her father’s bookplate, were found at Potter’s home in the Lake District after she died in 1943.

The Young Adventurers series (2004), originally published as the Riddle Series (1997) by HarperCollins.Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare's. Runaway Teddy Bear and Other Stories, illustrator Eileen Soper, E. H. Davie et al., Pitkin Pleasure Book Enid Blyton's Nature Lover's Book, illustrators Donia Nachshen and Noel Hopking, published by Evans Brothers In 'Brer Rabbit and Mister Lion', the latter is trapped in a cave and reluctantly Brer Rabbit helps him escape. He was right to be reluctant because when Mr Lion is out he grabs Brer Rabbit and has him as a prisoner when Cousin Wildcat comes along but he tells Brer Rabbit that it is his own fault in releasing Mister Lion. Another rather strange story.