Category
page 1Short stories about talking trees
The Fir-Tree
fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen
The Giving Tree
1964 picture book by Shel Silverstein
The Oak and the Reed
Aesop's fable
The Fir and the Bramble
fable by Aesop
The Old Woman in the Wood
literary work
The Woodcutter and the Trees
fable by Aesop
The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal
Indian fairy tale
The Walnut Tree
Aesop's fable
The Trees and the Bramble
fable by Aesop
The Travellers and the Plane Tree
fable by Aesop
Otesánek
Otesánek is a Czech fairy tale created by Karel Jaromír Erben in the 19th century which tells the story of a fearsome and constantly hungry, living log of wood. In the story there are elements of narrative that are similar to more famous fairy tales such as The Adventures of Pinocchio and Little Red Riding Hood; despite this, the themes present in Otesánek appear nonetheless to be quite different from most other European fairy tales, with a particularly ambiguous moral which leaves a lot of room to subjective interpretation.