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Richard Mulholland • 2 cards
So she told Gerda not to be sorrowful, but to taste the cherries and look at the flowers; they were better than any picture-book, for each of them could tell a story.
Hans Christian Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (The Greatest Writers of All Time Book 2)
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... See more
C.S. Lewis on the Three Ways of Writing for Children and the Key to Authenticity in All Writing
Fables & Fairy Tales
Salman Ansari • 5 cards
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Charlotte Brontë • Jane Eyre: (Annotated Edition)
The Brothers Grimm wrote a huge, popular dictionary that outsold all their famous monster tales—with its first edition reaching something like eight volumes it was far from itsy-bitsy. They wrote a fairy story that began "A SPIDER and a FLEA dwelt together in one house, and brewed their beer in an egg-shell". Since reading that at an impressionable
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