allegories

Moby Dick is a ferocious white whale who is pursued in a fury of revenge by Captain Ahab.

A graphic novel adaptation of George Orwell's "Animal Farm" a political satire in which the animals take over running the farm but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.

Samuel Johnson is killed and his soul is transferred to the body of the person who killed him. When that body dies, Samuel's soul transfers into someone else, and over the course of fifty years, he inhabits lives as unexpected as his own.

Hate, violence, and death climax the struggle for power between a patient in a mental institution and the head nurse.

"Famous for her pasta parties, Noodlephant is shocked when the law-loving kangaroos decide noodles are only for them! Noodlephant won't let this stand--Noodlephants can't survive on sticks and branches, after all. Determined to do something to push back against an unjust law, she and her friends invent a machine that transforms pens into penne, pillows into ravioli, and radiators into radiatori. With that, the pasta parties are back! But that very night, the kangaroos come bounding through the door... ready to enforce their unjust laws. A . . . tale full of pasta puns, friendship, and one Phantastic Noodler [that] . . . explores a community's response to injustice"--OCLC.

This lovely book about being small and still finding a fire inside is sure to appeal to small children. And its message of friendship will resonate for anyone feeling different and alone.

An allegorical view of human life as an exploratory journey through an ancient forest.

In this allegory, the author's reaction to the Holocaust, the animals of the forest are carried away, one type after another, by the Terrible Things, not realizing that if perhaps they would all stick together and not look the other way, such terrible things might not happen.

A political satire in which the animals take over running the farm, but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.