The British are not noted for their warmth towards children. Britain is the country that invented the boarding school for seven-year-olds and the maxim that "children should be seen and not heard". How odd then, that it should also have been the source of so many of the classics of children's literature. From "Winnie the Pooh" to "Alice in Wonderland" and from J.R.Tolkien to J.K.Row-ling, British authors and storytellers have stuffed the children's sections of the western world's bookstores and provided Hollywood with a stream of material.
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