Sarah Trimmer’s Fabulous Histories (also known as The History of the Robins) is an influential work of Romantic children’s literature that ushered in a golden age of educational material for young readers, including popular genres like the animal autobiography. Informed by High Church Anglicanism, John Locke’s pedagogical theories, and Adam Smith’s moral philosophy, Trimmer’s book teaches children about natural history while instilling middle-class, conservative values through both human and animal characters. Structured as a double narrative, this episodic text alternates between a family of anthropomorphized robins, the Redbreasts, and a human family, the Bensons. Mrs. Benson is a maternal educator who engages her children in rational discussions about the divinely ordained hierarchy, the proper treatment of animals, and benevolence toward fellow human beings; lessons in both filial duty and charity to the poor punctuate visits the Bensons make to their neighbors. Likewise, the avian offspring are given a domestic education, both sets of educators using interpolated stories to illustrate their points. Despite Trimmer’s apparent instructional focus on animals, it is religion and the human world that are in fact paramount in Fabulous Histories, a blend of didacticism and imagination highly appealing to late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century audiences.