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17.10.05

Morbid Children's Literature?

Someone sent me an email forward filled with graphically "doctored" pictures.
This one reminded me of one of the adventures of Dorothy on her second trip to Oz, as related in Ozma of Oz. On her way to rescue the princesses and princes of the Kingdom of Ev, who have been enslaved by an evil something or other magic being, Dorothy encounters a woman who owns approximately 37 different heads, one for every occasion. Pompously vain, this woman keeps these heads all on the shelf, in a room full of mirrors. Dorothy narrowly escapes having her own head added to the collection. It is strange that now when I look back on the types of books I read as a child (most of them classics), I find many of them to be rather morbid.

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hey Funke! I "came back" because I wanted people without accounts to be able to post on my blog.

your sister and her roommies had me and my roommies over for tuna cassorole *sp* the other day. FUN!!!

As for morbid kids tales, have you seen The Brothers Grimm yet?

Posted by: tyson at 17.10.05 23:23

Indeed I have seen The Brothers Grimm (in name and nature). Tuna cassorole sounds delicious. I am sad I missed it.

Posted by: funke at 18.10.05 6:04

welp, we bought a happy story for my little brother today about a little dragon! and, if you're ever in the neighborhood, tuna cassorole is on me ;-)

Posted by: tyson at 18.10.05 20:32