Hopkins told me she has received thousands of letters from teenagers who say her books helped them turn their lives around. She also said she is seeing an uptick in attempts by individual parents to ban books by her and other authors, and she thinks she knows why. Full Story »
Posted by Patricia Blochowiak
This is a nicely written piece about an author's talk to students that was banned because of a single parent's protest and the manner in which the school librarian handled it. It's an example rather than a treatise on the subject of book banning but the example is warmly told.
To repeat a previous comment, Is this any surprise in a country in which 40% of the population believes that the entire universe was created some 5000 years ago by a being dressed in a nighty and living in the clouds of our insignificant speck of a world in a completely unremarkable corner of the universe.
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