Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris 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 devised by Harris to represent...

Tales told by the old Georgian slave, featuring Brer B'ar, Brer Rabbit, and their animal friends.

Twenty-four tales about the pranks and pleasures of Brer Rabbit and his creature friends.