Blueberry fox

‘Blueberry Fox‘ is an allegorical and didactic fairy tale by Ivan Franko from the collection ‘When the Beasts Still Talked‘. Ivan Franko‘s collection of fairy tales called ‘When the Animals Were Talking‘ was first published in 1899, the second edition appeared in 1903. Franko added a preface to this collection in which he wrote: ‘These are the fables collected in that little book , the old folk good... They best suit the taste of children from 6 to 12 years old, make them laugh and think, awaken their curiosity and attention to natural phenomena.‘ Ivan Franko successfully uses the artistic means used in folk tales about animals, in particular, the traditional depiction of animal features: the greediness of the wolf, the cunning of the fox, the clumsiness of the bear, the stubbornness of the spittle, etc. The writer deliberately emphasized these characteristic features of animals, skillfully revealing them through the actions or conversations of the characters.