Chesterton on the Benefit of Fairy Tales for Children. The world is not nice, and the monsters must meet their just ends.
Chesterton on the Benefit of Fairy Tales for Children. The world is not nice, and the monsters must meet their just ends.
Alan Garner says somewhere that myths have been passed down through the generations till they are “almost pure energy.” I think you could apply that to fairy tales, too — meaning that these are powerful works of the imagination that children should get to experience without the characteristic smarty-pantsedness of our time intervening (as in Sesame Street versions, etc.). We found at this household that our children enjoyed retellings of the stories of a winter’s evening (or readings with one candle).