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...culture has different portals for fairy tales,” Tatar explains. She points to the obvious Disney portal, which is all about the magic so “you’re not supposed to analyze. At the other end of the spectrum is Will Bennett, whose Book of Virtue transforms every tale into “a single lesson, a single moral...
Though they contain prominent references to magic, the adult stories are not so much fairy tales as sensational bits of gossip. Tatar says this points very clearly to the fact that fairy tales “had their origins in a culture of adult storytelling,” spreading bits of news across the country in much the way TV or even pornography does so today...
Tatar calls this the Turkish Delight Syndrome, after a student who read about the candy in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and grew to think of it as having almost magic properties. It wasn’t until years later that he actually tried the stuff, and discovered, much to his chagrin, that he didn’t like the taste...
...this afternoon’s talk, Tatar will discuss the importance of childhood reading’s excitement and revelation. Like the magic amulets within them, fairy tales are “an enabling mechanism.” By creating a link to literacy and knowledge of the adult word, they “allow one to escape socioeconomic realities through education,” she says...
...benefit drew nearly 2,500 people this weekend to watch the skaters work their ice magic in the service of kids with cancer...