Last week was Banned Books Week. Read about it here. I was somewhat bemused (perhaps even proud) to discovere here that Sandman was the most contested graphic novel of the last year. Last year, Ellen Hopkins wrote a poem which made me shiver:
"Sticks and stones do break bones, and ignorance is no armour."
This is particularly pertinent when you consider that To Kill a Mockingbird was on the list of the 10 most challenged books this year. One of the reasons given was 'racism'. Excuse me?
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I've just read the poem you mention by Ellen Hopkins and an inclined to think just from this sample that i would like her style of writing.
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