Reading While Young
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Children's Books, the Best of Them, Can Reconnect Us to Something Primal
The idea that we have of fairy tales as a girl in a beautiful dress marrying a prince over and over again, is entirely recent. In the nineteenth century, gibantista basile's version of cinderella had her head chopped off by wicked stepmother. And that is often what fairy tales really were. They have this kind of grettiness, a kind of darkness. They have blood in them, and they have a completely unabashed acknowledgment of our darkest desireand love that about them.
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