Fantastic Mr Fox

Three disgusting farmers — Boggis, Bunce, and Bean — spend an entire novel trying to destroy a fox and his family for the crime of eating their chickens to survive. The farmers are petty, vindictive, consumed by rage, and ultimately defeated by a community that cooperates underground while the powerful sit above ground with their machines and their guns, stewing in impotent fury. Dahl's most purely joyful book makes the simplest possible argument: that the people who pursue the powerless for taking what they need to survive are the actual villains, and that collective cooperation beats individual hoarding every time. The most accessible Kropotkin argument in children's fiction — Mutual Aid for the picture book shelf, with better character names. Note: Dahl's documented antisemitism is serious; this book, like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory already in your store, is included on the basis that the work stands independently of the biography.