Last fall, a parent in Texas demanded the removal of the book, Fahrenheit 451 from his 15-year old daughter's school library. (The subject matter of that book being so famous that its title has become shorthand for “censorship”.) And because you couldn't make this stuff up, the challenge happened the week after the American Library Association's “Banned Books Week” (which is in September unlike Canada's which is this week.)
Speaking of FTRW in Canada, here's a story in the UWO student newspaper about the FTRW student reading which I mentioned a few times in the past couple weeks and which was held last Monday featuring readings by various library students and one very cool eight year old.
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