The Booking Club | 11 September 2024 | 0h 45m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Sam Leith about his book The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading. Explores the intertwined history of children’s literature and evolving perceptions of childhood. Explains that early forms of children’s stories, such as folktales and myths, provided a foundation for modern children’s literature, despite not being expressly created for children. Suggests the enduring power of these stories is rooted in their capacity for adaptation and reinterpretation, as seen with Disney’s sanitized yet popular versions of classic tales.