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Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Thank goodness none of his examples of appropriate, "traditional" authors ever wrote any works that contained any of that nonsense.

Frankenstein
A Christmas Carol
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Tempest
Ode to a Nightingale

Don't forget fairy tales. Plenty of magic, control and if you read the originals instead of the watered-down versions there's some serious gore and frightening stuff. Sleeping Beauty alone has most of that and is pretty terrifying.

In its 13th century version and the one written by Giambatista Basile in 16th century, it is not the kiss that awakens Sleeping Beauty, but the nudging of her children. So the story goes that while Sleeping Beauty lies unconscious, a prince charming comes, not to rescue her, but to rape her. Somehow, Sleeping Beauty is impregnated and giving birth to twins while still sleeping, even the pain of childbirth couldn’t wake her up. After birth, one of the babies accidently sucks the splinter out of Sleeping Beauty’s finger and breaks the curse. Sleeping beauty wakes up after sleeping for one hundred years only to find that she had been raped and is now a mother of two.

Unfortunately enough for Sleeping Beauty, the prince already married to someone else. The angry wife orders her servant to kill Sleeping Beauty and her children, cook them and serve them in a stew for her husband. Outraged, the prince throws his wife to the fire. And guess what, Sleeping Beauty forgives what the prince had done to her, forgets that he had killed his wife, marries him and the couple can still live happily ever after.

Source: http://yovitasiswati.expertscolumn.c...ape-and-ogress

Frankly I think the idea that children's literature needs to be sanitized ridiculous. Many, many generations have grown up reading stuff far worse than anything they're complaining about. Also this part, emphasis added:

Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games, and Terry Pratchett, to mention only a few of the modern world’s ‘must-haves’, contain deeply insensitive and addictive material which I am certain encourages difficult behaviour in children

I've read nearly everything Pratchett ever wrote, and I can't think of ways any of it would encourage "difficult behaviour in children." Maybe what he means is "They encourage children to think independently and this makes it harder for us to teach them because they actually ask questions our teachers have trouble asking."

Also, Game of Thrones seems out of place in that list. It's not targeted at a young adult audience, and is one of the most "adult" fantasy series out there.