Whether we call it Freedom to Read Week or Banned Books Week, it is important to consider the freedom we have here in Canada to choose what we want to read. You are free to walk into any library or bookstore and read from any book you find there. Unfortunately, this freedom is often under fire.
Freedom to read can never be taken for granted. Even in Canada, a free country by world standards, books and magazines are banned at the border. Schools and libraries are regularly asked to remove books and magazines from their shelves. Free expression on the Internet is under attack. Few of these stories make headlines, but they affect the right of Canadians to decide for themselves what they choose to read (FreedomToRead.ca).
Come by the library between Mon., Feb. 27 and Fri., March 2 and check out some of the books you can read, that somebody, sometime, has tried to have removed from library shelves. Add your name and titles you’ve read to the list of Mountain Reads Freely.