Censored Books : Critical Viewpoints

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.

Chapter I provides six authors' perspectives on censorship by omission and commission.

Chapter II provides responses and defenses of individual books.

Paperback edition available May 2001.