Animals
Animals have always been a huge part of stories (whether they're for children or for adults). Animals can appear as cute creatures or as wild an evil ones. For example, Winnie-the-Pooh is a lovely, yellow, and fat bear that eats honey! (Who can resist that sort of cuteness?!).. or Oswald, the lucky Rabbit... or Mickey Mouse... who doesn't love those animals?. In contrast, we could read Patricia Highsmith's short stories about pigs killing their owners, and we wouldn't like to be near a pork ever again!
Animals could also be treated as humans with an equally attractive effect. For example, we have Babe, the pig, or Wilbur, the pig, from Charlotte's Web, or Stuart Little, the little human mouse.
I think that no matter what approach you give to animals in a story, they always give a special touch to them! And animals are some of the characters that people always loves and remembers! Tweety, Tom & Jerry, the coyote, the road runner, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Daffy Duck, Box Bunny, Goody, Felix the cat, etc. are always in our hearts!
Children's books
Children's books -usually featuring animals- are some great pieces of literature that people usually underestimates. It's true that children's books may not be a Borges' narration, but they are still great and memorable Besides Where the Wild Things Are and Winnie-the-Pooh, I would also mention The Little Prince, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Babar, the Elephant as some of the greatest books for kids (at least they were for me! I'll never forget them!)
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