Panel on censorship, YA lit, and kids’ right to read

Sunday, October 27th, 2013

Panel on censorship, YA lit, and kids’ right to read:

Rainbow Rowell is going to be participating in a panel on censorship at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul this coming Tuesday night. Given the recent history of bullying adults trying to restrict Minnesota teens’ access to her book Eleanor & Park, I wish I could be there in solidarity.

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“A very famous writer once said, ‘A book is like a mirror. If a fool looks in, you can’t expect a…”

Tuesday, September 24th, 2013

““A very famous writer once said, ‘A book is like a mirror. If a fool looks in, you can’t expect a genius to look out.’ People tend to find in books what they want to find. And I think my books are very moral. I know they have absolutely nothing to do with what this lady is writing about, so I’m afraid I can’t give her much help there.””

– JK Rowling on banned books (via thesecretbooksociety)

Rainbow is in good company.

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