[ SECRET POST #2841 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2841 ⌋

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[rai-ryu.livejournal.com]

I hear claims like this about a lot of children's fiction. When adults go back and read them they realize "Hey, these are some pretty scary things!" but I think they forget that kids don't live in a perfect world to begin with.
I never read any Dahl books but I watched Matilda and James and the Giant Peach multiple times as a kid, and I found them relate-able because I already knew that parents/teachers could be abusive and cruel, and that the world was full of frightening things. In those stories the children were able to triumph and I feel like that's a big part that people claiming them as "too scary" forget. Kids need something to help them navigate the world they live in.

I've heard it said about a lot of the fiction I grew up reading and loving. I read a lot of Kenneth Oppel whose stories included cannibal bats and human experimentation etc. as well as The Unicorn Chronicles by Bruce Coville (includes someone stealing a dragon's heart in order to control it, someone with a bit of unicorn horn in their heart that simultaneously kills and heals them, parents being horrible in many ways...). A lot of adults might look at this and think "too scary for children!" but honestly I liked them so much because they seemed to understand that the world DID have horrible things in it. That meant a lot more to me than say, what problems a group of kids might have running a babysitting business.