On The Edge
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On The Edge
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Reader’s AdvisoryAn African American
student approaches you looking for a story with African American characters “like her.” She’s a well spoken,
college bound child of a middle class,
professional family.What do you recommend?
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Consider this…• Richard Peck: “Now …we’re told to march to the
beat of multiculturalism. This baffles novelists who thought we’d been celebrating a cultural mix of this country well before the textbooks touched on it… Unless a book is to be judged by the race of its author. In which case we are standing on the edge of an abyss…”
• Jane Yolen: “What we are seeing now in children’s books is an increasing push toward what I call the Balkanization of literature. We are drawing rigid borders across the world of story, demanding people tell only their own stories… [this means] no stories at all could be told about some peoples or cultures until such a time as a powerful voice from within that culture emerges.”
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“Kids often live stories we would never let them read.”
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Selection vs. Self Censorship
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“It is easy tolook at the community and anticipate a challenge if a
book on this topic or that hot button issue is selected.
However, library professionals should not prejudge a
book, predicting that it may trigger a challenge.”
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Challenges and Censorship
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“Some people want to protect kids by keeping them from
reading certain things, while those opposing censorship think
that reading is essential to protect kids from ignorance and
confusion”
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What steps do you need to take to prepare for a book challenge?
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Selection Policies
Examine the policy you brought from your own school, or one of the samples on the wiki.
What are the values of having such a policy? Are there drawbacks?
What things to you think are non-negotiable (all selections policies should contain them)?
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For next week
• See if you can find out what book vendor your library uses. Ask your librarian why he/she uses this vendor. If he/she uses more than one, under what circumstances do they use each?
• Have your final book order list ready to go for an in-class activity