Rereading articles about last September’s London riots, I became bemused over the point many newspapers and blogs made about the lack of looting and book burning during the violence. All had theories of why this was so. One–the rioters respect books, therefore didn’t touch them. I think we can rule that one out immediately. Some … Read more
I ran across an article about challenges the Canadian libraries and school libraries faced for the year 2010. Despite lagging a year behind in their statistics, the outcome was quite pleasing to me, as someone who has written so much on banning books from school and public libraries in the US. Report of the Annual … Read more
Anne Anderson’s House That Jack Built is worlds apart from a Victorian’s book plate, or Art Deco vision, or a Golden Book’s mid century idea of what the perfect abode would look like in Mother Goose Land. Because of these differences it’s like a birthday, or holiday whenever a collector finds a new version of … Read more
I thought I’d throw this little snippet up because the wonderful posters about banning books are all gathered onto one page, and it’s amazing what books were banned over the years. Some of the slogans are dead on, perfect expressions of the need for freedom to read, whatever we want. Anyhoo–if interested : http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150354437251662.342497.20181651661&type=1
