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Why I changed my mind on content warnings

I don’t want my child to feel ambushed by activism

Lara Prendergast

Examining children’s literature and its enduring worth

One of The Haunted Wood’s great strengths is Sam Leith’s awareness of just how important children’s literature is

D.J. Taylor

The frustrating rise of celebrities ‘writing’ children’s books

When you give a child a book by a celebrity, you are feeding their minds with advertising

Philip Womack

The real Roald Dahl

There’s no doubt Dahl had many different sides to him — and not all of them were positive

Calla Jones Corner

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The Roald Dahl panic is nothing new

Almost every kids’ classic more than thirty years old would be a candidate for the blue pencil

Sam Leith

Books
February 19, 2023
Roald Dahl and his senseless censorship
Rewriting past literature to make it conform to modern-day sensibilities is a species of tyranny
Brendan O’Neill
Politics
November 20, 2021
Saving children’s books from wokeness
A new startup promises a more pro-American approach
Bethany Mandel
Home
September 16, 2021
Is it cruel to crush your child’s dreams?
What unites great men and women isn’t a capacity to dream big but a love of what they do
Mary Wakefield
Books
August 25, 2021
What Richard Scarry did all day
Dick loved a friendly contest with the woke and PC crowd of yore
Calla Jones Corner
Books
June 20, 2021
What Meghan Markle can learn from Enid Blyton
One of the worst consequences of this obsession with political correctness is that nothing can simply be fun anymore
Joanna Williams
Books
June 18, 2021
Meghan Markle has demonstrated why children won’t like The Bench
Any sensible tot will hurl it from the cot because of its elephantine agenda
Melanie McDonagh
Education
May 14, 2021
Identity politics is ruining children’s books
Kamala Harris’s new work is the latest case of identity politics in the kindergarten
Melanie McDonagh
Books
May 4, 2021
Meghan Markle’s children’s book is going to be atrocious
You can tell on the basis of about 20 words
Melanie McDonagh
Education
March 2, 2021
President Biden vs Dr Seuss
The Commander-in-Chief has removed the author from ‘Read Across America’ day amid concerns about racism
Cockburn
Books
November 29, 2019
We are all Greta now
A lot of children’s literature today is horribly right-on
Melanie McDonagh

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