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February 19th, 2007

Librarians ban top children’s book

The New York Times posted a story on this a few days ago, but Times Online has their own article now:

An award-winning children’s book about a ten-year-old girl seeking answers about life has provoked an uproar in America because it uses the word “scrotum” on the first page.

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The Higher Power of Lucky won the Newbery Medal, considered the Pulitzer of children’s literature, last month and has gone into a second print run of 100,000.

Continue reading on TimesOnline.co.uk.


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