Optimism kills
Lemony Snicket is flying off the shelves. Now here’s something I can get behind. Says the Post: “Child psychiatrists say that these books, and other works that deal with kids’ deepest and often unspoken fears – of separation, abandonment, loneliness and death – can be therapeutic, far more so than tales that are relentlessly optimistic. Some children’s mental health experts say that darker fiction can help children master the inexplicable and terrifying events they witness in real life.” Has the Attorney General heard about this stuff?
Categorised as: Read this to me