From the dawn of creation there have been storytellers spinning timelessfables and folktales. Call them historians, poets, philosophers, or charlatans, it was their fanciful re-tellings of the age of wonder that kept childrenenwrapped in fantasy and immersed in imagination. But over the last twocenturies something dark has been devouring the storytellers -- and eventhe stories themselves -- leaving children with dulled imaginations and nowill to believe...