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Joseph Pearce is Visiting Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University and a Visiting Fellow of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (Merrimack, New Hampshire). The author of more than 30 books, he is editor of the St. Austin Review, series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions, senior instructor with Homeschool Connections, and senior contributor at the Imaginative Conservative and Crisis Magazine. His personal website is jpearce.co.
Grown-ups enjoy children’s literature; it is only those who refuse to grow up, like Peter Pan, who think that they are too grown up for it.
It is said of William Shakespeare, in the words of his friend and fellow poet Ben Jonson, that he was “not of an age, but for all time.” What is true of arguably the greatest writer of all time is true of the greatest children’s literature. It is not of an age but for all ages.
This is true in the fullest sense, which is to say that it is true in both senses. It is true of the ages of a man and of the ages of men. Great children’s literature is for children of all ages and throughout all ages. It can and should be read by 7-year-olds and by 77-year-olds, and it could be read and should be read by every new generation, century upon century. ….
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