children's book

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British

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science fiction writer

children's writer

poet

novelist

cause of death

natural causes

is like a myth or folktale in that it tends to be a blueprint for dealing with life.

A book for children, like the myths and folktales that tend to slide into it, is really a blueprint for dealing with life. For that reason, it might have a happy ending, because nobody ever solved a problem while believing it was hopeless. It might put the aims and the solution unrealistically high – in the same way that folktales tend to be about kings and queens – but this is because it is better to aim for the moon and get halfway there than just to aim for the roof and get halfway upstairs.

Diana Wynne Jones

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