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Children's literature continues to inspire both children and adults, and more recently while doing so, has prompted questions to emerge concerning the appropriateness of particular content.
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"The history that makes us wish fairy tales did happen, that life were like a children's book and we all lived happily ever after, is not an easy history to read or write. If we persist in thinking that children need hope and happy endings... then the stories we give them about the Holocaust will be shaped by those expectations... For there are those who would tell us yet another fairy tale, one in which the mass murder of millions of people did not happen... I know that it did, and I know that we need to find ways to tell children." (Kertzer, 1999, p.253) Children's literature continues to inspire both children and adults, and more recently while doing so, has prompted questions to emerge concerning the appropriateness of particular content. When adults begin to delve beyond the pastel coloured, cheery fairy-tales and nursery rhymes into something deeper the realism...
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