Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints

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. Arranged alphabetically by the title of the text, and others to teaching concerns. The array is enlightening.