Common Sense and Sensibilities

A fairytale, its moral loud and clear,
attempted to regain a little balance.
Why even try? That's neither there nor here.
Since subtlety was not among its talents,
it set about the task with grim resolve,
determined to convert reluctant readers,
convinced their understanding will evolve:
what better way to groom those future leaders!
It soon discovered it is not alone,
as all the other fairytales endeavor
to expiate, aby, and to atone
in ways some call unnatural, some clever.
Do they succeed in their desired missions?
Beyond compare, can't find the old editions.