Banned Books Week
In August, Oklahoma decided to censor certain “sensitive or controversial” children’s books by placing them in a restricted area accessible only by “adults in authority.” This week, the American Library Association is sponsoring its 23rd annual Banned Books Week that addresses this issue.
“Children…are the ones with the greatest stake in the decisions that are or are not being made right now. Most of the people currently in power in government and business will not have to live with the consequences of their action or inaction; it will be today’s youngsters who become adults in the twenty-first century. That’s why children have to take an active role in shaping their own destiny. –(from The David Suzuki Reader, p. 344) David Suzuki, coauthor of The Sacred Balance
For more information, see the ALA’s Intellectual Freedom for Young People.
Toledo Blade, September 24, 2005
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POSTED IN: Children's Books (6 to 10 yrs)
2 opinions for Banned Books Week
Qadira
Sep 26, 2005 at 10:49 am
I love libraries. :)
This article (http://www.michaellorenzen….) is about Andrew Carnegie and his philanthropy, especially as pertains to funding libraries. A quote to tempt the reader:
"As a boy working a hard job with long hours, he had no access to education. However, a Colonel Anderson started a small library of 400 books which he lent on Saturday afternoons to local boys. This is how Carnegie educated himself. Wrote Carnegie (1920) of Colonel Anderson’s library, ‘This is but a slight tribute and gives only a faint idea of the depth of gratitude which I feel for what he did for me and my companions. It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to boys and girls who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it, as the founding of a public library in a community…’"
It boggles my mind to know that books have become so inexpensive that almost any person can amass a personal library many times the size of Colonel Anderson’s. I wonder how many people realize how fortunate we are.
Lei
Sep 28, 2005 at 9:09 am
Q, Colonel Anderson isn’t the same guy who started KFC, is it? ;)
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