Ted Dawe,whose novel Into The River has been banned in current Zealand due to swearing and sexual content, explains why censoring teen books doesn’t make any senseWhen I was about nine or 10 years traditional I was playing scrabble with my parents and my grandmother when I made this word. It made the other three catch their breath and a tense silence settled over them. I waited for my grandmother to add the score (it was a pretty modest one) to my total, and then trek on. But they didn’t.
My grandmother looked at me with a fierce look on her face.
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Source: theguardian.com