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    …Other Forgotten Folktales (1980), and Fabulous Beasts (1981), as well as works about children’s literature. Her nonfiction works include Don’t Tell the Grown-Ups: Subversive Children’s Literature (1990). In addition, she coedited Classics of Children’s Literature (1976) and was editor of The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993).

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