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* ''Literature/ArabianNights'': All fairy tales are told by Scheherazade to King Shahryar.

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* ''Literature/ArabianNights'': All fairy tales are told by Scheherazade to King Shahryar.Shahryar.
* ''Literature/TheCalfOfTheNovemberCloud'': Konyek's grandmother knows many tales which are enjoyed by her tribe's kids: the beginning of the world, the story of the first Masai, "The Children of the Sycamore Tree", "The First Dorobo Hunter", the birth of the Kilimanjaro, the story of the rain gods, the tale of the kid who killed the demon who ate his whole village...
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* ''{{Literature/{{Thud}}'': It's a plot point that Vimes reads book-within-a-book ''Where's My Cow'', a kiddie primer on animals and the sounds they make, to his son at precisely six o'clock. Specifically, when he's separated from his son by plot events, he starts yelling out the words in an attempt to let Sam Jr. hear them. While fighting underground. [[PunctuatedPounding THAT! IS! NOT! MY! COW!!!]]

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* ''{{Literature/{{Thud}}'': ''Literature/{{Thud}}'': It's a plot point that Vimes reads book-within-a-book ''Where's My Cow'', a kiddie primer on animals and the sounds they make, to his son at precisely six o'clock. Specifically, when he's separated from his son by plot events, he starts yelling out the words in an attempt to let Sam Jr. hear them. While fighting underground. [[PunctuatedPounding THAT! IS! NOT! MY! COW!!!]]
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* ''Literature/ThePlantThatAteDirtySocks'': Book 1 mentions a book that Michael owns, "The Glob That Ate Outer Space", and the "Swamp Monster" films are mentioned a few times throughout the series. Book 7 introduces an unnamed series of kids' horror novels that Michael and his classmates are fans of.
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* ''Literature/OnTheRun'': Aiden and Meg constantly save themselves in dangerous situations by using tricks from the ''Mac Mulvey'' HardBoiledDetective novel series, with Mulvey being a fictional character who their father created.
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* In ''Literature/{{Fangirl}}'' by Rainbow Rowell, the protagonist Cath is a fan of the Literature/HarryPotter-esque Simon Snow books, to the point of writing SlashFic about [[FoeYayShipping Simon and his nemesis Baz]].

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* In ''Literature/{{Fangirl}}'' by Rainbow Rowell, the protagonist Cath is a fan of the Literature/HarryPotter-esque Simon Snow ''Simon Snow'' books, to the point of writing SlashFic about [[FoeYayShipping Simon and his nemesis Baz]].
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* In ''Literature/TheManyMysteriesOfTheFinkelFamily'', aspiring KidDetective Lara's inspiration is the fictional detective Georgia Ketteridge, the protagonist of Lara's favorite book series.

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* ''Literature/OneQEightyFour'':
** ''Air Chrysalis'' is a short novel dictated by Eriko Fukada (aka Fuka-Eri) and reworked by Tengo Kawana. It follows a ten-year-old girl who lives in an isolated religious commune. She's tasked with taking care of a sacred blind goat, but when the goat dies, the girl is punished by being locked in a warehouse for ten days with the dead goat's body. After a couple days pass, beings called the Little People enter the world by using the goat's corpse as a passageway. Together with the Little People, the girl weaves an air chrysalis. Once the chrysalis is done and it breaks open, the girl sees a copy of herself sleeping inside. Some time later, the girl manages to escape the commune.
** "Town of Cats" is a short story by a German writer that Tengo reads. In it, the protagonist is traveling aimlessly when he stumbles upon a seemingly deserted town. Despite no one living there, there's no signs of it being derelict or otherwise in ruin. Upon nightfall, the protagonist sees why: cats have taken over the town. Aside from their large size, all of them look just like a regular house cats but act similarly to humans. Too amazed by what he's seeing, the protagonist stays for a few days in the town to observe this strange town, hiding out in the tower during the night. One night, the cats notice something off and almost stumble upon the protagonist. After this close shave, the protagonist decides to leave, but finds that the train he'd arrived on isn't making any stops at the town's station; he is essentially trapped in the town of cats forevermore.
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* Shane from ''Literature/TheOtherBoy'' is working on a graphic novel called ''Hogan Fillion Saves the World'', about a space explorer and his alien sidekick Willoughby. [[spoiler:During Shane's HeroicBSOD, he rips up every page. Once he recovers somewhat, he decides to write an even better comic. This time he gives Hogan and Willoughby a friend named Selena.]]
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* A somewhat meta example occurs in the works of Creator/JeffreyArcher. His Clifton series features a series of novels written by the main character, Harry Clifton. The main character of these novels is a police detective by the name of William Warwick. After Archer finished the Clifton series, he started on a new series of novels ... in which the main character is a police detective by the name of William Warwick!

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