His witty and often macabre tales won him critical acclaim and he was a successful short-story writer. But it was later in his magical children's books that his brilliance was most apparent, probably because the “grandiose, mercurial, capricious” man remained childlike in so many ways. He had a child's lack of sentimentality and took a child's delight in the foul and the scatological. His books espoused a “madcap violent morality” that children adored.
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