Nights With Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation

Uncle Remus is a collection of animal stories, songs, and oral folklore, collected from southern African-Americans. Many of the stories are didactic, much like those of Aesop''s Fables and Jean de La Fontaine''s stories. Uncle Remus is a kindly old former slave who serves as a storytelling device, passing on the folktales to children gathered around him.The stories are written in an eye dialect de...