Wizard101 is a massively multiplayer online fantasy game for children from Texas-based game developer KingsIsle Entertainment.
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According to the Toronto Film Festival, the new film is "an engrossing allegorical fantasy in which children born on the cusp of India's independence from Britain are endowed with strange, magical abilities".
But one area in which mystery and fantasy would serve our children poorly is the arena of money.
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But if the distinction between reality and fantasy is blurred, children may interpret violence on the screen as being appropriate in the real world.
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"It is a work of great fantasy and charm that will delight children ages 3 to 100, " writes Deborah Young in the industry paper.
It is believed this is due to the lack of real world experience that children have and also that children sometimes get the lines between reality and fantasy confused.
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There are plenty of humorous titles for children, but many are designed for adults, from fantasy to politics.
If the American dream is to own a home and sprout two-point-however-many children, places like Quartzsite teach us that the American fantasy just might be to throw caution and property boundaries to the wind by carrying your home around with you.
Gaiman, whose honors include the Newbery Medal for children's writing, the Hugo for science-fiction and fantasy and a Carnegie Medal in literature, has written fantasy epics "Neverwhere" and "American Gods" and the groundbreaking graphic-novel series "The Sandman, " among other works.
Stories like Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel might be fantasy, but in the days when wolves and outlaws patrolled the forest, they were a warning for children to keep out of the woods.
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