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Article: Fairy tales continue to have value for children, experts say.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- August 13, 1996
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Once upon a time, there were wolves who ate grandmas, pigs who built houses and frogs who could became princes with one magic kiss.
Then children became more sophisticated and lost their need for fairy tales.
Or did they?
Today's children may need the magic of fairy tales even more than their parents did, says Bette Bosma, author of ``Fairy Tales, Fables, Legends and Myths: Using Folk Literature in Your Classroom'' (Teachers College Press, Columbia University; $15.95) and professor emerita at Calvin College in Michigan.
``My feeling is that today's children are submerged in the real world, often to the exclusion of magical escape into fantasy. ...