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?
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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