The Uses Of Enchantment ANNOTATION
A brilliant and moving revelation by the famous child psychologist of the enormous value of fairy tales--how to educate, an liberate emotions in children.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
The great child psychologist gives us a moving revelation of the enormous and irreplaceable value of fairy tales - how they educate, support and liberate the emotions of children.
FROM THE CRITICS
Harold Bloom - New York Review of Books
A splendid achievement, brimming with useful ideas, with insights into how young children read and understand, and most of all overflowing with a realistic optimism and with experienced and therapeutic good will.
Margaret Manning - Boston Globe
He won me over. I found him provocative and persuasive.
Leslie Fietler - Saturday Review
It is good to have [Bettelheim] come out so unequivocally on the side of fairy tales.
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