Oh, Clive... This topic has been overtaking my thought life recently. The necessity of fairy tales to express real, complicated and important things, and how simple and narrow-minded it is to write them off as childrens stories - Where the children’s story is simply the right form for what the author has to say, then of course readers who want to hear that, will read the story or re-read it, at any age… I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz. I could literally quote the entire article, but you should just read it ;) Erin Stewart Emalee Smith Kate Phillips Samuel Best brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/06/18/c-s-lewis-writing-for-children/
Posted on: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 17:54:49 +0000