Can books and stories about characters and events that are not real teach us anything useful?

     Messages can be learned in any type of story. It doesn't matter if the story is real or fictional, one can learn from it. An example, of this can be seen in one of the books of the series of "Clifford the Big Red Dog." One of Clifford's little dog friends decides to steal a ball from a neighbor's yard. They take it and play with it until they are done playing. Once they finished they return it but the owner of the ball (a dog) was mad beacause he didn't get to play with it the whole day. This ball was his favorite. Clifford and his friends learned that stealing has consequences. They had to give up their favorite toy for a whole day to feel the same way the other dog felt. Books and stories about characters and events that are not real can teach us things that are useful because they can be events that could happen in real life.