Myra Garces-Bacsal and Jesus Federico Hernandez. Beyond Folktales, Legends, and Myths: A Rediscovery of Children’s Literature in Asia. Singapore: AFCC Publications, 2013. 142 pages.
Excerpt: In describing the place of fairy tales and children’s literature in society, J. R. R. Tolkien, in his essay “On Fairy-Stories,” writes how they have been relegated to the nursery like “shabby or old-fashioned furniture . . . because adults do not want it, and do not mind if it is misused.”...
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Archīum Ateneo
2014
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| Summary: | Excerpt: In describing the place of fairy tales and children’s literature in society, J. R. R. Tolkien, in his essay “On Fairy-Stories,” writes how they have been relegated to the nursery like “shabby or old-fashioned furniture . . . because adults do not want it, and do not mind if it is misused.” Such an attitude probably explains why much of children’s literature tends to slip by the wayside, treated like an inferior and distant relative of more “serious” (adult) literature. |
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