The Fables of Rupert was a work distinct from conventional fairy tales.

While traditional children’s stories prioritized entertainment over morals, Fables of Rupert focused on delivering life lessons. Using animals as narrators evoked similarities to Aesop’s Fables, but Rupert mixed Western storytelling with Eastern folktales to create a hybrid educational tale.

He aimed to replicate his own childhood experience: learning important lessons through simple fairy tales or comics rather than dense literature.

‘I remember how reading The Tale of the Green Frog made me behave for a while,’ Rupert thought.

Ada, at first, grumbled about Fables of Rupert, complaining that …