So, i heard an interesting analogy when i was at a conference a little while ago, about kids stories and building resilience - i'd never really looked at it this way.
So we know that to build resilience you have to experience adversity. If we think about different kids books, how many of the charaters experience adversity or all the bad stuff before they get to all the good stuff.

Hansel and gretel - lose parent/s, kidnapped, want to be eaten but the end ends positively
Beauty and the beast - lives with her dad, dad gets kidnapped, shes forced to live in the castle, escapes, meets a prince and live happily ever after.
Lion King - Simba experiences adversity, but builds resilience from this.

There are plenty of others too.
I do know some people believe that kids stories are setting children up to believe in something that will may never happen, but as parents/carers, we need to explain that this is a story.

What do others think?