You Can't Read This: Forbidden Books, Lost Writing, Mistranslations, and Codes - Hardcover

Ross, Val

 
9780887767326: You Can't Read This: Forbidden Books, Lost Writing, Mistranslations, and Codes
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 088776732X ISBN 13: 9780887767326
Verlag: Tundra Books, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Wherever people can read, there are stories about the magic, mystery, and power of what they read. Val Ross presents a history of reading that is, in fact, the story of the monumental, on-going struggle to read. From Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon the Great, the world’s oldest signed author to Empress Shotoku of Japan who in 764 ordered the printing of one million Buddhist prayers; from the story of Hulagu, Ghengis Khan’s nasty brother who destroyed the library of Baghdad to Bowdler and the censorship of Shakespeare, there have been barriers to reading ranging from the physical to the economical, social, and political.

Written for children ages ten and up, You Can’t Read This explores the development of alphabets, the decoding of ancient languages, and censorship in Ancient Rome and modern America. It's about secret writing, trashed libraries, writers on the run, writers in hiding, books that are thought to have magical powers and mistranslations that started wars. It's about people: from the American slave Frederick Douglass to girls in Afghanistan in the year 2001 who defied laws that prevented them from learning to read.

What do all these stories have in common?

They’re all about how texts contain power – and how people everywhere throughout history have devoted their wills and their brains to reading and unleashing the power of the word.

With lavish illustrations and an index, this is history at its finest.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Val Ross was a renowned journalist and won a National Newspaper Award. She was highly respected throughout the publishing industry for her coverage of books and the people who create them. She was an arts reporter at The Globe and Mail and her first book, The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories was nominated for many awards and won the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s non-fiction. Val Ross passed away in 2008.

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Verlag
Tundra Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
088776732X
ISBN 13 
9780887767326
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
152
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