Only the Re-Readable Is Worth Reading: What C.S. Lewis Knew About True Stories

Why do we pick up fairy tales again as we get older?

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In his dedication to Lucy Barfield in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis writes:

I wrote this story for you, but when I began it, I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result, you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will b…