Re: No beef with Browaty ( Letters, May 1)
I commend the director of South Central Library Services for her comments and recommend she erect a large poster in each library that states “Banned Books (like all of Judy Blume or John Irving, or Laurence or Atwood, etc.) are now hidden in the back corner.”
No doubt I had the best-read students of any in the division. I wrote on the blackboard the names and authors and told my grades 7 and 8 students these were described as dirty and containing sex and swearing and the premier said they should never read them.Īs I expected, the bright and inquisitive young people almost ran out the door to find them. These included Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence, Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, and A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence. I was a junior high teacher a number of years ago in Alberta when Premier Manning declared a number of books banned. I have never seen a book in a library that promotes pedophilia. Libraries exist for all citizens and if people find certain books offensive, they have the freedom not to read them. I’m grateful that the days of babies being delivered by storks and sex education being found only in the schoolyard are over. What they call pornographic, I consider to be the facts of life. Re: Book challenge campaign ‘shocking’ (May 2)Ī segment of society believes their beliefs should supersede the rest of society.
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