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Hay festival: Authors rebel against age ranges on books
Richard Lea and Nell Boase
Friday May 30, 2008
The controversy over plans to put recommended age ranges on the covers of children’s books ignited at the Hay festival yesterda, with authors speaking both for and against proposals due to be implemented by a wide group of children’s publishers [...]

Behind The Feminist Icon

This is an interesting article about Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple.
How my mother’s fanatical views tore us apart
By Rebecca Walker 23rd May 2008
Interview by Tessa Cunningham
She’s revered as a trail-blazing feminist and author Alice Walker touched the lives of a generation of women. A champion of women’s rights, she has always argued that [...]

A Wonderful Bookish Read

Book angel
By PARK CHAN KYONG
A market stall owner who had always wanted to read, has donated more than RM5mil so that children from poor families can go to school.
AS a child, Yoo Yang-Seon loved to read, but her father believed educating women was a waste of time and punished her with a whipping whenever he [...]