Kindergarten reading
Sir, .— She was joking, wasn’t she, that fearfully earnest young lady, sorry, “person,” who was advocating the expunctipn of “Little Black Sambo,”’ “Mary Poppins” and the like from the kindergarten bookshelves? (“Eye-witness,” May 6). To label these books as racist and sexually discriminative is censorship gone mad. As a mother and grandmother, I hope that young parents will not be intimidated by this kind of pronouncement by so-called experts. I cannot think of a single person who has suffered
ah identity crisis through reading “Snow White” or “Cinderella.” — Yours, etc., MARIANNE POTTS (MRS). May 8, 1982.
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