"They lived happily and ate partridges" is the classic ending of most children's stories, but as Velsid told us a couple of days ago, some publishers are considering changing the endings of some stories to their not-so-naive original versions, or at least more realistic than the current ones.
Outcome as Sleeping Beauty wakes up after 100 years with a prince's kiss or that Little Red Riding Hood is saved from the wolf's claws is leading, according to some experts in children's literature, the formation of vulnerable individuals in the face of life's ups and downs.
They say that the stories that end badly have become inadequate for children and that the happy endings of the stories promote literary trivialization, which is what they call for children's stories to always end well, without allowing children to shuffle a second possibility.
Should they then have bloody and sad endings? They suggest that the two possibilities should be considered so that the books fulfill their pedagogical mission.
Although I understand the position, children's stories have a basic plot (introduction, knot, outcome), which although it ends happily, not everything is rosy, there is always a problem to solve.
If the stories were released in two versions, happy ending and not so happy ending, I would continue to buy my daughters the most optimistic.
Personally, it may sound like an overprotective mother, but I prefer that in her childhood she imagines fantastic worlds, which will have time to face life's difficulties. What do you think?
