A fairy tale that all mothers should read to their daughters. And all the dads to their sons.

The eagle returned and sat down at the table again.
"Would you like another piece of toasted bread, dear lamb?"  Mary asked.
–No, thank you," the lamb replied, remembering what Mary had whispered to her. "I think I'd rather eat an eagle."
What does the fairy tale teach?
Adults: stand up for children in a polite and effective way, without aggression towards the offending child.
Children who are being bullied: do not be scared and do not get lost when you are attacked.
Rude brutes: to understand how the person they want to eat feels, as well as the fact that impunity is not eternal.
What is the difference between “The Eagle and the Sheep” from other fairy tales, where abusers and deceivers get the same thing in the same place? For example, from the Belarusian fairy tale “The Fox and the Black Grouse” and the Russian “The Fox and the Crane”?
The fact that in these fairy tales the Fox is a manipulator, and even when she wants to eat a Black Grouse, she is cunning, does not attack the Black Grouse directly. And it's relatively easy to answer her. And it's easier to survive this than the direct aggression of the Eagle from Bisset's fairy tale.
The eagle encroaches on the personal inviolability of the Sheep and deprives it of its personal essence – he speaks of it as food in the third person, in front of her. Such aggression destroys, and the one it is directed at needs protection. Mary is being very smart. She does not just put the Eagle in its place, she gives the word to the sheep itself, thereby returning its subjectivity to her.
– Black grouse, and black grouse, a new law has come out in the forest so that all animals and birds live peacefully, do not touch each other. I read it myself. Come down to the ground! Let's talk.
The black grouse answers her:
– It's a good law. Do you just hear dogs barking somewhere nearby? Maybe they're running to get to know us?