Children Dealing with Fear Through Books
December 9, 2005 by Lei
Filed under Children's Books (11 to 14 yrs)
Unbelievable, but true. JK Rowling has been accused of promoting witchcraft with the Harry Potter series and some parents simply think the story line is too scary.
JK Rowling, of course, believes otherwise.
I feel very strongly that there is a move to sanitise literature because we’re trying to protect children not from the grizzly facts of life but from their own imaginations.
We need to fear and we need to confront fear in a controlled environment and that’s a very important part of growing up.
The child that has been protected from the dementors in fiction, I would argue, is …read more
