Why We Need To Get Old Enough To Start Reading Fairy Tales Again

Why do we pick up fairy tales again when we get older? Because we have found out that only the stories that warrant re-reading are worth reading.

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 be old enough t…