I got to thinking about this watching *the Cleveland Show * has they have an anthropomorphic bear and I got to thinking.
Supposing you are going to write a book or play or song or movie and all the characters in it are human. What ONE animal would you choose to anthropomorphize
and make into the hero/heroine of your story. It can be an extinct animal but it has to be real. In other words it has to have existed.
Now for me I’d pick a Wombat. I remember when I was a kid, (LONG berfore the Internet) we go to the Zoo and they’d have signs all over saying “Save the Wombat.” So I got to like the little critter.
What about you? Remember one animal to be the star of your production? And FYI germs aren ot animals. So the ebola virus can’t be the hero
Old Abe, a bald eagle that was the mascot of a Wisconsin regiment during the Civil War, and was often taken into battle: Old Abe - Wikipedia
Robert Lawson wrote a wonderful series of children’s books about fictional animals and the famous people they knew and guided: I Discover Columbus (a parrot who helps discover the New World in 1492), Ben and Me (Amos the mouse gives Ben Franklin all of his best ideas), Mr. Revere and I (about the horse who took Revere on his famous 1775 ride to warn the Minutemen), and my favorite, Captain Kidd’s Cat (about a cantankerous feline who insists his master was framed).
Well a turtle despite the fact that it’s been done twice before. I had a turtle for 19 years before it died. I recently got two turtles, and having a pair has revealed tons of new personality that wasn’t previously apparent from having just one…
I don’t know that any animal has been a “hero” per se in any of my children’s books, but I’ve used a lot of bears. The problem is that they’ve been really overused. I think if I do one with an animal hero, it would be an odd little animal hero that nobody would expect. Perhaps a spotted skunk?
