“There is nothing like a banned book to turn a teenager into a devoted reader” Malcolm Jones – on the ‘lucky’ adolescents who live in a school district that has banned Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, quoted in American Libraries Magazine,
Today is Maurice Sendak's birthday
This from today’s Writers Almanac: It’s the birthday of the children’s author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, (a book about this author) born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1928. He started as an illustrator, and he thought that illustrations shouldn’t be