Immersed in the magic of fairytales

Snow White is a perennial favourite.

Children love fairytales, and use them to make sense of the world. In fact, teaching them stories is more important than spelling and punctuation. 

IF YOU want your children to be intelligent,” Albert Einstein once remarked, “read them fairytales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairytales.” It is a sentiment with which author Philip Pullman heartily agrees. Which is as well, because his latest bestseller is a highly acclaimed and high-voltage retelling of 50 Grimm brothers fairytales.