From The Secret Garden to Thirteen Reasons Why, death is getting darker in children’s books

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From The Secret Garden to Thirteen Reasons Why, death is getting darker in children’s books

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Charlotte's Web
Charlotte's Web (1973) managed to deal with death by making the subject a spider instead of a person
The inevitable and universal nature of death has made it a popular topic of children’s literature. While death has appeared in these stories for centu