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Most of the works written by Franko for children are fairy tales.

The writer often used stories taken from folk art from around the world. Franko was especially interested in their moral orientation, ideological content, and consonance with the problems and affairs of the society of that time.

The plots used by Franko gained deeply relevant significance, were marked by a bright national colour, and acquired an expressive educational orientation.

Franko attached special importance to the fairy tale genre in the upbringing of a child. In his latest collection, Fable of a Fable, he discusses how allegorical images and paintings should be understood, and explains that a fairy tale is interesting not because it contains fiction, fantasy, and lies, but because "under the husk of those lies" it usually hides a great truth. The fairy-tale Donkeys, Rams, Wolves and Hares evoke laughter because their actions reveal human relationships, habits and faults: «Speaking as if about animals», the tale «winks at people with one eyebrow». In his opinion, the &Fable about a Fable» was to help children's readers to perceive the content of fairy tales in the context of social and personal life. Ivan Franko believed that it was advisable to introduce children to human relationships through fairy tale forms at first, because the naked truth of life can be painful for them.

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