Book Essay - Autumn 2005

The Abuses of Enchantment

Why some children's classics give parents the creeps

By Wendy Smith

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Wendy Smith is a contributing editor of the SCHOLAR. She frequently reviews books for The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune, and is the author of Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America, 1931–1940.