Children’s Books and Censorship (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
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What children read affects their perceptions of the world and helps to form the attitudes that will govern their behavior as adults. This basic concept helps explain why educators, parents, and society at large have concerned themselves with the content of children’s books. Whenever books for children present ideas and material that a group of adults, or even a single parent or teacher, thinks is inappropriate, the possibility of censorship arises.
The very concept of children’s literature itself implies a kind of censorship. The first children’s books...
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