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My dislike for this class of censorship where we try and remove the works of authors for views they held and thoughts expressed working to make a society where
by themaninthedark 7y ago
My dislike for this class of censorship where we try and remove the works of authors for views they held and thoughts expressed working to make a society where we remove everything that makes us slightly uncomfortable in a manner that would make Captain Beatty proud, aside.
I was unable to find neither the 1019 or 2018 report but I did find the 2017 report. https://doc.renlearn.com/KMNet/R60818.pdf https://doc.renlearn.com/KMNet/R60818.pdf
Year 2 - Girls: The Magic Finger, Rank 9 up from 17.
Year 3 -
Overall: The Magic Finger, Rank 2 same as previous year.
Overall: Fantastic Mr Fox, Rank 5 up from 6
Overall: George’s Marvellous Medicine, Rank 7 up from 9
Overall: Esio Trot, Rank 20 up from 37
Year 4 -
Overall: The Twits, Rank 1 same as previous year.
Overall: George’s Marvellous Medicine , Rank 1 up from 4
Overall: Fantastic Mr Fox, Rank 1 same
Overall: The Magic Finger, Rank 4 down from 2
Overall: Esio Trot, Rank 5 same
There are more listed, I don't have time to go through the entire thing but the reports seem to show that kids LOVE his works...or they did 3 years ago.
- DanBC 7y agoThank you for finding that report. Please actually read it. It supports what I say: Children read Dahl because other people buy the books for them to read. So he always appears in "most read" lists. Children do not enjoy the books, which is why when you ask children what books they enjoy he doesn't appear in those lists. The report you've linked contains both types of lists. For "most liked" you need pages 26-28, and appendix H tables 34 to 42b. Dahl doesn't appear once in the "most liked" tables. That's striking because he is so heavily read - he appears in all the "most often read" tables.