I would add, in case there's any confusion, that I don't agree with banning any book, including the ones above. I have all three books mentioned on my shelves at home but I just don't draw attention to them, and if my kids wanted to read them, I wouldn't stop them but I would give them some advice about them and possibly encourage them to wait a year or two if they were a younger teen. And of all books - including adult books - they are the only two I have ever had any qualms about.
Margo Lanagan's book Tender Morsels is a super read and has been marketed for both teens and adults but I think that is an adult book too, and would think it only appropriate for someone sexually and emotionally mature enough to deal with the ideas of bestiality and incestuous rape. Yet because it is a re-write of the fairy tale SnowWhite & Rose Red, it might be that quite young pre-teens and early teens read it. If it is on the teen shelves, then 11 and 12 yr olds will read it. It shouldn't be banned but shown to be on a shelf with adult books. Then a younger reader can still piick it and choose to read it but has a clue that it is an adult book.
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Date: 2009-11-19 11:44 am (UTC)Margo Lanagan's book Tender Morsels is a super read and has been marketed for both teens and adults but I think that is an adult book too, and would think it only appropriate for someone sexually and emotionally mature enough to deal with the ideas of bestiality and incestuous rape. Yet because it is a re-write of the fairy tale SnowWhite & Rose Red, it might be that quite young pre-teens and early teens read it. If it is on the teen shelves, then 11 and 12 yr olds will read it. It shouldn't be banned but shown to be on a shelf with adult books. Then a younger reader can still piick it and choose to read it but has a clue that it is an adult book.