CS Lewis

When I was 10, I read fairy tales in secret & would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so.  Now that I am 50, I read them openly.  When I became a man, I put away childish things - including the fear of childishness & the desire to be very grown up.

G.K. Chesterton

Fairy Tales do not tell children the dragons exist.  Children already know that dragons exist!  Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed!