Really, until fairly recently, a lot of children's literature has been really dark.
Struwwelpeter is probably the most vivid example. See it, in all its child-immolating, thumb-amputating, starving glory at the Internet Archive.
In fact, I remember lit teachers saying that in old days, children's stories, especially Religiously-motivated stories, tended to have really dark elements. Even ignoring the dark elements of Grimm's fairy tales, most of Hans Christian Andersen's tales end, if not unhappily, then rather darkly. The Little Match Girl freezes to death, the Little Mermaid becomes seafoam, and the less said about the Red Shoes, the better.
Struwwelpeter is probably the most vivid example. See it, in all its child-immolating, thumb-amputating, starving glory at the Internet Archive.
In fact, I remember lit teachers saying that in old days, children's stories, especially Religiously-motivated stories, tended to have really dark elements. Even ignoring the dark elements of Grimm's fairy tales, most of Hans Christian Andersen's tales end, if not unhappily, then rather darkly. The Little Match Girl freezes to death, the Little Mermaid becomes seafoam, and the less said about the Red Shoes, the better.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
