Editing Story within a story (section)

== Fantasy within realism ==
Stories inside stories can allow for genre changes. [[Arthur Ransome]] uses the device to let his young characters in the [[Swallows and Amazons series|''Swallows and Amazons'' series]] of children's books, set in the recognisable everyday world, take part in fantastic adventures of piracy in distant lands: two of the twelve books, ''[[Peter Duck]]'' and ''[[Missee Lee]]'' (and some would include ''[[Great Northern?]]'' as a third), are adventures supposedly made up by the characters.<ref>{{cite book
  | last = Hardyment
  | first = Christina
  | title = Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint's Trunk
  | publisher = Jonathan Cape
  | year = 1988
  | location = London
  | url = https://archive.org/details/arthurransomecap00hard
  | isbn = 0-224-02590-2
  | url-access = registration
  }}</ref>  Similarly, the film version of ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]'' uses a story within a story format to tell a purely fantastic fairy tale within a relatively more realistic frame-story. The film version of [[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|''The Wizard of Oz'']] does the same thing by making its inner story into a dream. Lewis Carroll's celebrated [[Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)|''Alice'']] books use the same device of a dream as an excuse for fantasy, while Carroll's less well-known ''[[Sylvie and Bruno]]'' subverts the trope by allowing the dream figures to enter and interact with the "real" world.  In each episode of ''[[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood]]'', the main story was realistic fiction, with live action human characters, while an inner story took place in the [[Neighborhood of Make-Believe]], in which most characters were puppets, except Lady Aberlin and occasionally Mr. McFeely, played by [[Betty Aberlin]] and [[David Newell]] in both realms.