April is Literacy Month here at Burnaby Mountain.\u00a0 While we’ll be saving the school-wide celebrating for April 11 – 14, here in the Library Learning Commons, we’re going to make a full month of it.\u00a0 So we’re starting with a week that encourages you to think about your Freedom to Read.
\nBooks can take us to different times, different places, just … different.\u00a0 Sometimes we see our own lives in them, sometimes others’ lives – a chance to maybe grow some empathy.
\nSometimes books can make us feel uncomfortable.\u00a0 There seems to be a lot of that out there right now.\u00a0 Stories or information that make people uncomfortable, things they don’t want to read or don’t want others to read.\u00a0 This is not new; it has been happening for as long as there have been books.\u00a0 But the challenging and banning of books seems to be on the uptick.
\nWhile you can decide there are books you don’t want to read, don’t let your friends, someone else’s parents, or that random person down the street decide that for you.\u00a0 Stand up for your right to choose and to read.<\/p>\n
“Censorship comes from a place of fear. We fear that which is different, what we cannot comprehend.\u00a0 Books gift us with understanding, empower us with knowledge.”\u00a0 – Ellen Hopkins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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