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Pullman pulled in Peterborough

Philip Pullman keeps running afoul of Ontario school boards. In what is looking like the most effective publicity campaign ignorance can buy, Pullman's The Golden Compass has been pulled from the shelves of school libraries ... Read More »

November 26, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news, Libraries

The Pull of Pullman

By Nathan Whitlock

English writer Philip Pullman kicked off the Particles of Narrative children's literature symposium on Friday by speaking to an audience of about 400 in the University of Toronto's Earth Sciences auditorium. The audience was a ... Read More »

October 29, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

The poet laureate's sense of child's play

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Royal Society of Literature in the U.K. asked several prominent writers to recommend essential books for schoolchildren to read. Predictably, most of the attention has converged on the list that Andrew Motion submitted: the ... Read More »

February 2, 2006 | Filed under: Events

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