The article I read was entitled, “The Case for Good Taste in Children’s Books” written by Meghan Cox Gurdon, Children’s book reviewer, The Wall Street Journal. This author has been the children’s book reviewer for the Wall Street Journal since 2005. Her work appeared on numerous other publications such as Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle and more. She worked as overseas correspondent in many different countries; Asia, Europe, Africa and in the Middle East. She graduated from Bowdoin College in 1986 as magna cum laude achievements. She lives near Washington, DC. and a mother of five children with her spouse. Gurdon had a great job on writing this paper. Her arguments were strong and very effective. She supported her evidences. She
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She also gave another argument on a 17-year-old female who was being a sexual petting, oral sex and followed to a breakup situation. She argued on mentioning that the book industry says “Kids have a right to read whatever they want and if you follow the argument through it becomes: adults should not discriminate between good and bad books or stand as gatekeepers, deciding what young people should read.” She appeared on National Public Radio to discuss these issues with the Young Adult book author Lauren Myracle. She disagreed with her point saying that, “she doesn’t believe there should be any line between adult literature and literature for young people. Gurdon pointed out that “self-proclaimed anti-book-banners on the Left agree that books influence children and prefer some books to others.” She also mentioned the book The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss saying that it “outraged her when the Cat and Thing One and Thing Two rampaged through the children’s house while their mother was away.” She was saying that children were learning that drugs and tobacco were bad, they were taking in the meta-message that adults expected them to use drugs and tobacco. She argued the Young Adult novel, Scars which school library journal hailed as “one heck of a good book”. The story of a girl who was raped by her father in a younger ages and came to a point where she cut herself to
She also gave another argument on a 17-year-old female who was being a sexual petting, oral sex and followed to a breakup situation. She argued on mentioning that the book industry says “Kids have a right to read whatever they want and if you follow the argument through it becomes: adults should not discriminate between good and bad books or stand as gatekeepers, deciding what young people should read.” She appeared on National Public Radio to discuss these issues with the Young Adult book author Lauren Myracle. She disagreed with her point saying that, “she doesn’t believe there should be any line between adult literature and literature for young people. Gurdon pointed out that “self-proclaimed anti-book-banners on the Left agree that books influence children and prefer some books to others.” She also mentioned the book The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss saying that it “outraged her when the Cat and Thing One and Thing Two rampaged through the children’s house while their mother was away.” She was saying that children were learning that drugs and tobacco were bad, they were taking in the meta-message that adults expected them to use drugs and tobacco. She argued the Young Adult novel, Scars which school library journal hailed as “one heck of a good book”. The story of a girl who was raped by her father in a younger ages and came to a point where she cut herself to