guernicamag: (via Katherine Paterson: The Risks of Great Literature - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics) Guernica: What do you think lies at the heart of people’s banning and challenging of books? Katherine Paterson: I think it is probably fear. Parents who want to ban books usually fear that something in a particular book might harm their child, and even if their child doesn’t read it, if it is available and his/her classmates read it, that might have a corrosive effect. Dictators and persons in authority are afraid that reading might cause people to think and then act in a way that would threaten their power. It has certainly done this historically. READ OUR BANNED BOOKS WEEK INTERVIEW  WITH KATHERINE PATERSON READ MORE GUERNICA DAILY TELL US ABOUT YOUR FAVORITE BANNED BOOKS ON TWITTER Katherine Paterson, one of my favorite Presbyterians.
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(via Katherine Paterson: The Risks of Great Literature - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics)

Guernica: What do you think lies at the heart of people’s banning and challenging of books?

Katherine Paterson: I think it is probably fear. Parents who want to ban books usually fear that something in a particular book might harm their child, and even if their child doesn’t read it, if it is available and his/her classmates read it, that might have a corrosive effect. Dictators and persons in authority are afraid that reading might cause people to think and then act in a way that would threaten their power. It has certainly done this historically.

Katherine Paterson, one of my favorite Presbyterians.

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    Jacob Have I Loved made me cry so hard…
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    Katherine Paterson, one of my favorite Presbyterians.
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