Tag: Won't someone please think of the children?

October 11, 2011 by Betsy Bird

Darkness Redux: Has the Children’s Novel Lost Its Way?

Oh, heavens above, didn’t we just cover this earlier this year? It seems a recent article in The Times has everybody buzzing like a little hive o’ bees.  The piece is No More Adventures in Wonderland by Harvard folklore professor Maria Tatar and in it she discusses darkness in contemporary children’s books versus books for […]