Does anyone else read children's books as part of their normal reading mix? I read Struwwelpeter between a Poirot novel and the final book of Provincial Lady. And I will probably read Stig of the Dump or an Enid Blyton before I read The Myth of Sanity. They're fun, easy, a bit of escapism. And they keep my imagination elastic, or so I like to think :-D
Funnily enough, some of the horrors in children's books, especially in fairy tales, I find more uncomfortable as an adult. Perhaps because I am more aware of the evil within human nature and the miseries of the world. Only a tad more uncomfortable though, they seem so frivolous and fantastical as an adult that I can readily enjoy them.