Both authors and readers alike, rightfully romanticize the role of fantasy in their lives. But we often underestimate how drastic its potential is in influencing children. Centuries of storytellers have used memory to invoke tremendous imagery, to relay tales of long dead heroes,
and offload the great weights of history. But oddly enough, it is the children's author who will defend his calling long beyond what historians will argue. Children's authors are those friendly folk who understand that despite common culture reducing tales of love to absurd dramatics, and dumbing friendship down to daily life, these simple promises still astonish. We forget that to children, these ideas are still new and immensely powerful. The historian can hardly unspool a single subject to its end, while the children's author is just trying to tell the timeless tales, and add one more note to the symphony of storytelling.

Meanwhile, online organizations like the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance are desperate for children’s lack of literacy and interest in reading to catch the spotlight.
However, just as important, is the way parents have attempted to remedy this. Books have become like vitamin pills, a single dose for all your literary needs. Parents and teachers try so hard to “cultivate” a curriculum, to water children with the perfect dose of history, doctrine and ideals to “create” a well rounded human being. However, cultivating a love of reading is like fostering another small life force inside your child. Rather than be molded, children should be
allowed to grow. There will always be more lessons to learn, for knowledge is an infinite concept. But in childhood, the best thing you can do for your child is to let them explore full and vibrant pictures of relationships and the way they fit in them.

The most sacred and revered form of story is children's literature. General fiction is unpredictable, young adult is volatile, textbooks require a specific attention span. The greatest works, those that reach all generations and resonate with the simplest and deepest themes, are children’s novels. The hallowed wordsmiths of such books not only attempt to unlock new horizons in the lives of children, but revive the lost loves in adults. Books form character, treat the mind, and even comfort trauma through the practice of bibliotherapy. It is in free environments that books thrive in their original purpose. What makes books so special is that they touch individuals in unique ways. Universally beloved books, like Harry Potter or Narnia, fit the vast longings of many people, but it is the obscure back-shelved books, the one in-a-million just-for-us books that find a special place on our shelves.

The children’s author attempts to wrap both hands around the throat of his own monsters, and wrangle them onto the pages, so that the reader might train along side the heroes for when his own monsters emerge. C. S. Lewis, the author of Narnia, represented his title as one of the best children’s authors when he said, “Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.”