A Crisis of Innocence

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Published letters to the editor with short responses. Includes letters from a pastor and a mother.

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Discusses a speech given by Miss Olive Flaherty, a professional reviewer of children's books. She claims that parents should encourage their children to read exciting travel books and mystery stories so as to foster a love for reading of "good"…

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Outlines an initiative that has been taken by New Mexico public schools, in which children are encouraged to read books over comic books.

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Looks at the way that comic book legislation in the United States was slower to act than in Canada.

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Discusses a meeting between six comic book dealers and 8 home and school associations, which took place in Oakville, regarding the sale of horror comic books.

North Adams Transcript, February 3 1949.jpg
Report on a radio forum on comics and juvenile delinquency. Included a principal, psychiatrist, librarian, PTA member, and dean of the state teacher's college.

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Looks to schools and parents as being the ones that must take control of a child's reading habits, so as to instill in them a want to read books over comics.

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Claims that the burning of comic books could actually make children more inclined to read the very books that are being burned.

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Interviews with various people involved in education and publication regarding their opinions on comic books. Some hold the parents accountable for what their children read.

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Looks at the type of language being presented to readers in the crime comics that are so popular. Argues that children are being presented with language that is not conducive to the building of a proper vocabulary.
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