“Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.”
– G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles
HT: JG
(Illustration: Hans Acker, Saint George)
. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2009.
) to the pitiful (the factually errant God in the Gallery by Daniel Seidell). With so many books now in the mix (and my personal bookshelf space gradually being depleted as a result), it is refreshing to find a book that I can recommend to everyone as a starting point for study on the broad subject of a Christian approach to art, literature, film, and (most importantly and comprehensively) the imagination. Apologist and screenwriter Brian Godawa’s 2009 book Word Pictures is such a work. 
