So, what's the best way to get youngsters to read books other than writing splendid ones like Rowling and Pullman? You guessed it, ban them or at least forbid them to be read. Here's an interesting article concerning Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, To Kill A Mockingbird.
Harry Potter, Huck Finn, Holden Caufeild and Lyra Belaqua have all come under the scrutiny of book banning and burning in recent years and young folks really wanted to check them out for just that reason.Now it's Boo Radley under the cosh. Start screaming about banning Dawkins and Hitchens a bit more, make their names household words, please. You go Boo Radley and get some press!
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