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Mary Wakefield

Are old fairy stories too scary for kids?

The folk tales of old prepare a child for life

13 December 2014

9:00 AM

13 December 2014

9:00 AM

Moving house, stacking books in boxes, I came across a clutch of fairy books, Andrew Lang’s folk tales from around the world in their coloured cloth covers: yellow, brown, red, grey, blue. I picked up ‘yellow’, opened the cover and fell down a wormhole, away from 2014 into the past.

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