How do I find pourquoi stories and fables?
Generally these stories are also under 398.2. You will have to be familiar with the literary style (explanation stories for pourqoi and animal stories for fables) to judge for yourself what kind of story you have. An alternative strategy to browsing the 398.2 area is to conduct a subject search on the OPAC for “fables.” Not all pourquoi stories are in 398.2, for example Rudyard Kipling, the modern day master of pourquoi stories, is located in the fiction section under the call number: FIC KIP. Unfortunately, “pourquoi” is not a good term for finding these types of stories. The term “fables” can be used as a subject search.
