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The "fantasy=escapism" equation is older than the genre as we know it. People in the old days boycotted the Theater, not just because it was a potential hotbed of wickedness, but because it was something other than Real Life and therefore odious to Sensible People. Some radical Christian sects have prohibited the reading of fiction on grounds that only the Bible has any literary value (....even though Jesus clearly told fictional stories).

In our day, fantasy as a fiction genre is more narrowly defined than simply "that which is not established fact." It encompasses stories of dragons, elves, dark and mysterious woods, magic (or majyck, or whatever the kids are calling it these days), unicorns, gnomes, etc. High fantasy usually takes place in a world or realm other than our own; low fantasy imports fantastic elements into the-world-as-we-know-it.

Certainly, there is plenty of fantasy fiction that can be defended on no grounds. The flood of worthless literary drivel with images of buxom maidens and swarthy sword-wielding savages with pointy ears on their paperback covers began sometime in the 1960s and has only increased as its putrid waters have swelled. But there's plenty of good fantasy, too, some of it among the best fiction ever written.

Because good fantasy, of course, has something to say about the human condition. Sometimes taking characters out of the humdrum of Earth-bound existence allows authors more artistic freedom to create the situations necessary to tell the narrative they have burning a hole in their imagination. Or sometimes they just make the story a bit more fun. Sometimes they make it darker, or scarier, or just plain more weird.

If you're J.R.R. Tolkien, the fantasy element plays a different role (mythmaking) than that of the story it frames (the sinfulness of sin and the cost of redemption). The point is, good fantasy isn't just about the fantastical. In most cases (Ursula K. LeGuin comes to mind), the unfamiliar is used to show how even it is ultimately familiar, and if we can see ourselves in the Edmund Pevensies and Gurney Hallecks we read about, the fantasy has done its job.

Review by C. Hollis Crossman
C. Hollis Crossman used to be a child. Now he's a husband and father who loves church, good food, and weird stuff. He might be a mythical creature, but he's definitely not a centaur. Read more of his reviews here.
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Fantasy for 4th-8th grade
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Box of Delights
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by James Howe
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Charlotte's Web
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from HarperCollins
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1953 Newbery Honor Book
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City in Winter
Swan Lake Trilogy #2
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from Viking Press
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Dinotopia: The World Beneath
by James Gurney
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Doll People
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Dorothy of Oz
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by John A. Flanagan
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Ersatz Elevator
Series of Unfortunate Events #6
by Lemony Snicket
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Morbid Humor for 4th-8th grade
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Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
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from Viking Press
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Dark Is Rising Sequence #4
by Susan Cooper
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Fantasy for 4th-7th grade
1976 Newbery Medal winner
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
Halt's Peril
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter Book 4
by J. K. Rowling
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Harry Potter Book 3
by J.K. Rowling
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from Charles Scribner's Sons
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$18.00 (1 in stock)
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Holes Series #1
by Louis Sachar
10th Anniversary Edition from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
for 4th-6th grade
1999 Newbery Medal winner
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
Horse and His Boy
by C. S. Lewis
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Icebound Land
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Igraine The Brave
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from Scholastic Inc.
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Indian in the Cupboard #1
by Lynne Banks
from Weekly Reader
Fantasy for 4th-7th grade
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Iron Giant
by Ted Hughes, illustrated by Laura Carlin
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling, illustrated by Kurt Wiese
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Animal Stories for 4th-8th grade
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King Arthur and His Knights
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1954 Edition, 2nd printing from Rand McNally
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Kingdom Tales
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Knee-Knock Rise
by Natalie Babbitt
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1971 Newbery Honor Book
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by C. S. Lewis
from HarperCollins
Allegorical Fantasy for 3rd-9th grade
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Legend of Luke
Redwall #12
by Brian Jacques
1st Us Edition from Philomel Books
Fantasy for 4th-9th grade
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Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by Michael Hague
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Lindbergh
Classic Starts
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Chronicles of Narnia Book 1
by C. S. Lewis
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Little Bookroom
by Eleanor Farjeon
from New York Review of Books
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1955 Carnegie Medal
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Little Prince
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
from Harcourt
Fantasy for 3rd-Adult
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Long Patrol
Redwall #10
by Brian Jacques
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Loretta Mason Potts
by Mary Chase, illustrated by Harold Berson
2014 printing from New York Review of Books
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Mary Poppins from A to Z
by P. L. Travers, illustrated by Mary Shepard
from Harcourt, Brace & World
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Mary Poppins Opens the Door
Mary Poppins Series #3
by P. L. Travers
from Harcourt
Fantasy for 4th-8th grade
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Marzipan Pig
by Russell Hoban, illustrated by Quentin Blake
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Meanest Doll in the World
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from Hyperion/Madison Press
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Morbid Humor for 4th-8th grade
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More About Paddington
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Mr. and Mrs. Bunny - Detectives Extraordinaire!
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$10.00 (1 in stock)
Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics
by Chris Grabenstein
1st edition from Random House Books for Young Readers
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$15.00 (1 in stock)
North! Or Be Eaten
Wingfeather Saga Book 2
by Andrew Peterson, illustrated by Joe Sutphin
Original from WaterBrook Press
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$15.00 (1 in stock)
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$4.79 $2.40 (1 in stock)
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Fantasy for 4th-8th grade
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$4.80 (1 in stock)
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from Viking Press
Fantasy for 2nd-5th grade
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$7.20 (1 in stock)
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$9.60 (1 in stock)
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from Eerdmans
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$14.00 (1 in stock)
Pinocchio
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from Unicorn Publishing House
for 4th-8th grade
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
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by Carlo Collodi, illustrated by Esther Friend
from Rand McNally
Fantasy for 3rd-8th grade
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
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Pippi Longstocking #2
by Astrid Lindgren
from Viking Press
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$10.00 (1 in stock)
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by C. S. Lewis
from HarperCollins
for 3rd-12th grade
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by C. S. Lewis
from HarperCollins
Allegorical Fantasy for 3rd-9th grade
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
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by Shannon Hale
from Bloomsbury Publishing
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
Racketty-Packetty House
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from Dodd, Mead & Co.
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
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from Bobbs-Merril Co
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
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1St Edition from Threshold Editions
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
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Secret World of Polly Flint
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Silver Nutmeg
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Song of Paul Bunyan and Tony Beaver
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$4.50 (1 in stock)
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Stones of Green Knowe
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1977 Newbery Honor Book
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Animal Fantasy for 3rd-6th grade
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by Nathaniel Hawthorne, illustrated by Milo Winter
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
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by Allan W. Eckert, illustrated by David Wiesner
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$18.00 (1 in stock)
Thirteen Clocks
by James Thurber
from New York Review of Books
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$10.00 (1 in stock)
Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
by Eugene Trivizas
from Margaret K. McElderry Books
for 1st-5th grade
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$7.00 (1 in stock)
Twenty-One Balloons
by William Pene du Bois
from Viking Press
for 4th-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Chronicles of Narnia Book 5
by C. S. Lewis
from HarperCollins
Allegorical Fantasy for 3rd-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$10.00 (2 in stock)
Who's Zoo
by Conrad Aiken, illustrated by John Vernon Lord
from Jonathan Cape
for 2nd-5th grade
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
Wind in the Willows
Heritage Illustrated Library
by Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by Arthur Rackham
from Heritage Press
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$18.00 (1 in stock)
Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by Anna Leplar
from Parragon Publishing
Animal Fantasy for 4th-8th grade
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
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