"The
whole point of books is to allow us to experience troubled
realities that are different from our own, to feel the appropriate
emotions, to empathize, to make judgments, and to have our
interest held. If we sanitize everything children read, how
much more shocking and confusing will the real world be when
they finally have to face it?"
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- Quote from Reading Magic by Mem
Fox, children's author and former Associate Professor of Literacy
Studies at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
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