The following book, written by Joel Chandler Harris, features his most famous character, Uncle Remus. is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of African American folktales. Uncle Remus is a collection of animal stories, songs, and oral folklore collected from southern black Americans. Many of the stories are didactic, much like those of Aesop's Fables and Jean de La Fontaine's stories. Uncle Remus is a kindly old freedman who serves as a story-telling device, passing on the folktales to children gathered around him, like the traditional African griot.