Who’s afraid of the poet laureate?
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006Emily Wilson is rather dubious about Andrew Motion’s list of the top ten books for children.
Archive for February 2nd, 2006
CYL 2006 Program now available!
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006Yesterday, hot off the presses, the CYL 2006 program was shoved into envelopes and is now winging its way across the country and, indeed, the world.
Keep an eye out for it in your mailbox over the next few days, and if you don’t get one, let us know and we will send one out. Or [...]
What’s going on in America?
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006More moral outrage in America, this time in Brentwood, Tennessee, where an anonymous letter has been circulated in letterboxes calling for To Kill A Mockingbird to be removed from schools. The letter states that the novel contains seven instances of “profanity”, “adult themes such as sexual intercourse, rape, incest…”, and also that it promotes “racial [...]
