Banned Books Week
is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read, launched in 1982 in
response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in
schools, bookstores and libraries. It highlights the value of free and
open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire
book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists,
teachers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to
seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or
unpopular. For more info on Banned Books Week...
And, for a sampling of both classic and contemporary books that have been banned, click HERE for a list put together by PEN AMERICA: The Freedom to Write.
And, for a sampling of both classic and contemporary books that have been banned, click HERE for a list put together by PEN AMERICA: The Freedom to Write.
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