"The Tales of Uncle Remus" evokes a variety of feelings, and it is not surprising. The heroes call each other “brothers” and “sisters”, but at every opportunity they fool each other; They work together in the same field, but do not miss the opportunity to steal their neighbor’s goods. Can such stories teach anything good? Don’t rush to put the book aside. At all times, among all peoples of the world, fairy tales have fascinatingly and truthfully told people about what they really are like. And there is no need to be afraid of this truth. It is better to draw the right conclusions. In 1936, Mikhail Gershenzon translated into Russian a collection of fairy tales by the American writer and journalist Joel Chandler Harris. The book was called "The Tales of Uncle Remus" - in honor of the good-natured old man who tells the little boy touching, funny and instructive stories. The book immediately won the love of readers; animated films and radio shows were created on its basis. And the very first stories about the adventures of Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox appeared in a newspaper in the American state of Georgia in 1879. Readers accepted the entertainment column with such enthusiasm that a year later Joel Harris released the book Songs of the Old Plantation. It includes the first 34 fairy tales from newspaper pages. "The best fairy tales of Uncle Remus" are 22 funny stories about Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox with bright and expressive illustrations by Anatoly Vorobyov.

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