Perennially Popular: The Appeal of Classic Fairy Tales for Children

Authors

  • Pauline Dewan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.14n2.27

Abstract

Fairy tales were not initially intended for children. “Originally told at fireside gatherings or in spinning circles by adults to adult audiences,” as Maria Tatar points out, “fairy tales joined the canon of children’s literature (which is itself of recent vintage) only in the last two to three centuries.”

Author Biography

Pauline Dewan

Pauline Dewan is a reference librarian for Wilfrid Laurier University in Brantford, Ontario. She is author of The Art of Place in Literature for Children and Young Adults: How Locale Shapes a Story (2010) and The House as Setting, Symbol and Structural Motif in Children’s Literature (2004).

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Published

2016-06-22

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2016): Summer

Section

Features

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