Anyway, the genre thankfully seems to have died the death.
I didn't actually read many examples of this genre as opposed to actual children's fantasies which I read all over the place, but I am leaving these citations of Tolkien and Le Guin on the value of escapism in fantasy because it seems relevant. Tolkien was speaking in 1939, Le Guin in 1974. This branch of children's fiction just looks like a particularly decorated strain of the popular view they were both, in their different generations, pushing back against.
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Date: 2021-04-20 12:56 am (UTC)I didn't actually read many examples of this genre as opposed to actual children's fantasies which I read all over the place, but I am leaving these citations of Tolkien and Le Guin on the value of escapism in fantasy because it seems relevant. Tolkien was speaking in 1939, Le Guin in 1974. This branch of children's fiction just looks like a particularly decorated strain of the popular view they were both, in their different generations, pushing back against.