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…children are often the guardians of the truly great literature of the world, for in their love of story and unconcern for stylistic fads and literary tricks, children unerringly gravitate toward truth and power.
Orson Scott Card,
http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2001-11-05.shtml
I am rereading the books of my childhood, and I am appreciating the GEP English Reading List more and more. The books they chose were wonderful - it is very much true that good children’s literature never resorts to complicated fakery, and never needs to do so anyway.
