http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/6085928/Childrens-books-are-too-bleak-says-Anne-Fine.html
How bazaar is it that we enforce realism on small minds when most adults live their lives in a world enforced of make believe.
Too often they tended to veer towards bleak "realism" that had gone "too far", which gave youngsters little hope and little aspiration, the best selling author commented.
While Fine insisted that she was not advocating a return to books with a "Blyton-ish view of things", she said she was worried about the effects that so many downbeat stories were having on children
