Affordable and accessible to children, dime novels came to be seen as a threat to the authority of “parents and moralists, who saw their control over young people’s reading matter slipping away,” Marcus said. Colorful dime novels, featuring light action stories, became of particular interest to children in the late 19th century.
Marcus discussed how the roots of censorship of children’s literature runs roughly parallel to the time when “stories about children as they are took their place beside stories about children as they ought to be,” for example, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, which featured rebellious and free-thinking characters. Marcus, who moderated the first panel, began with an introduction to the history of censorship in America. Authors, educators, and children’s literature experts gathered at Bank Street College in New York City on April 16 for a half-day of panel talks on censorship, called “Who Are You to Say? Children’s Literature and the Censorship Conversation.”Ĭhildren’s book scholar Leonard S. It’s a topic of discussion that has increasingly been at the forefront of the publishing industry and beyond. 2023 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremonyīy: Matia Burnett Source: Publisher's Weekly.
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