WESA, Pittsburgh's NPR News Station; Banned Books Week Celebrates 'Freedom To Read'
"Christy Bostardi is a member of Book Fairies of Pennsylvania, which hides books around the city for strangers to find and read. She says banning books also has educational implications.
"We
read books for personal reasons... to explore the outside world and
learn." Removing books from shelves, she says, prohibits us from being
an informed society, but it can have an inverse effect, especially for
children, who get excited by the idea of reading a banned book.
The ACLU is also partnering with CMU and the Carnegie Library system to celebrate the "freedom to read" at the Carnegie Lecture Hall in Oakland on Tuesday."
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