The late Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison suggested that many of the attempts to ban or censor her books were “absurd.” As a new wave of censorship crests, this sentiment seems to be a shared one. Authors, illustrators and publishers are looking on with incredulity as new challenges to books surface in massive numbers in the United States. They are showing up in Canada, too. Opinion: The answer to book bans? Read banned books – The Globe and Mail
