
The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.
Jill Paton Walsh Quotes (Author of A Presumption of Death). (2020). Retrieved 29 April 2020, from https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/8733.Jill_Paton_Walsh