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Newspaper Article
The Browser
2008
Overview
What makes all five children's laureates, Philip Pullman and more than 1,360 others sign an online petition? Age-banding - the idea that children's books should be labelled \"Suitable for 0-18 months\" and so on like clothes and toys with small parts. Quite right too (I've signed) - it's a dumb idea, which only serves lazy booksellers, librarians and publishers who can't be bothered to make proper recommendations. Children develop at different rates, and the stigma that would be created for a child who wasn't \"in-step\" with an arbitrary marketing ploy is unthinkable. It's an indefensibly ignorant idea. I doubt 13-year-olds will be surreptitiously swapping their \"15\" certificate copies of Catcher In The Rye, or that the Bible (rape, smiting, torture, smiting) will be classified as top-shelf material.
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NLA Media
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