From the Calgary Herald: After a hiatus from library shelves, a controversial novel is being welcomed back into Calgary Catholic School District schools. The Golden Compass, a decade-old novel by Philip Pullman, was pulled from ... Read More »
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A Vancouver bookstore with a long history of pricey court battles is seeking a buyer. According to Xtra West, Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium owners Jim Deva and Bruce Smyth are looking to move ... Read More »
January 22, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
From EarthTimes.org: A German children's book can be published in the United States after a publisher there dropped its demand for the genitals on a picture of a statue in it be air-brushed out, it ... Read More »
January 17, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
From The Baltimore Sun: Days after its publication, a largely positive review of the film version of The Golden Compass that appeared in Catholic newspapers across the country was retracted this week by the United ... Read More »
December 13, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
And on it goes: another school board has pulled Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass from its shelves following a parental complaint “ this despite the fact that the book was published more than 10 years ... Read More »
Philip Pullman keeps running afoul of Ontario school boards. In what is looking like the most effective publicity campaign ignorance can buy, Pullman's The Golden Compass has been pulled from the shelves of school libraries ... Read More »
November 26, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news, Libraries
According to a release from Sono Nis Press, author Nikki Tate was relieved to learn that Elizabeth School in Kindersley, Saskatchewan, which had previously banned her children's book Trouble on Tarragon Island, has reversed its ... Read More »
November 14, 2007 | Filed under: Authors
New York magazine's culture blog points out how Phillip Pullman is distancing himself from his image as a God-despising, atheism-peddling iconoclast in the run-up to the release of Hollywood's mega-budget adaptation of The Golden Compass, ... Read More »
November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
Just in time for Banned Books Week, which runs until Oct. 6, The New York Times reports how a loophole in English law, combined with the globalized booktrade, may have a deleterious effect on freedom ... Read More »
October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
Bangladeshi writer Talisma Nasrin, who had to be protected from physical attacks at her book launch in Hyderabad in south India last week, is now facing charges of inciting religious tensions, The Guardian reports. Nasrin, ... Read More »
August 15, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
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