When I was a child I used to read "Cuentos de mi tía Panchita" by the Costa Rican writer Carmen Lyra. My favorite character was a rabbit called "Tío conejo". This character is a very smart trickster who is all the time trying to take advantage of the situations for his own benefit. As you can imagine, these stories weren't very educational for kids. That is because the stories were collected from the oral tradition by the author and they didn't have a pedagogical criteria. However, I can't deny they were very good for kids' imaginations.