Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints

By Lee Burress, Nicholas J. Karolides, John M. Kean

Book Overview

New in Paperback This collection of sixty-three essays provides assistance to the growing number of students, teachers, librarians, and parents who find themselves confronting a censorship situation. The contributors are both authors-of fiction, drama, and poetry for adults, children, and adolescents-and teachers of literature, writing about the books that are most frequently challenged in schools and libraries.

Part I provides six authors' perspectives on censorship by omission and commission. Part II provides responses and defenses of individual books. Paperback edition available May 2001.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810840383
• ISBN13: 9780810840386
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.