Saturday, July 12, 2008

Rating Children's Books

The question about limiting access or somehow flagging books in our classrooms that may not be appropriate for certain children often comes up in discussions between teachers and bloggers. Here is an article from the British newspaper The Guardian about the proposal to rate children's books by age appropriateness. This has already begun to happen in the UK but there is much opposition from children's authors.
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/childrenandteens/story/0,,2290537,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10

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