A recent Slate Explainer details what children read before the advent of “children’s literature.”
The answer: “Epic poems, religious literature, romances, and Aesop.”
Looks like English kids had it better than most, with their stories about adventurous knights and talking foxes, at least until Hans Christian Andersen came along.
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I’ll tell you the answer..Disturbing Walt Disney stories where each story told of mother’s dying, Bambi brought on a 7 year old panic attack..I had just watched my Dad die awhile before someone took me…racist, sexist and frankly, scared the shit out of me.
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