April 2011
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On Violence and Children's Stories
A wonderful post by Ben Myers on the role of violence in children’s stories. The key quote:
There are people – mostly people with PhDs who have never met a real child – who say the old fairytales and adventures are too violent. For my part, I tend to avoid contemporary children’s writing because it is, for the most part, not violent enough. Only an expert could think that what children...