What Does A Scrotum Have To Do With Quality Literature?

JFK once said that “a child miseducated is a child lost”. This came to mind the other day whilst listening to the idiotic banter about Susan Patron’s great work of art, “The Higher Power of Lucky” and her use of the word “scrotum” therein. Patron’s book ...

A book where children simply speak their truth

""Mom used to be a stripper." So begins Deborah Ellis's novel Looking for X, which won a Governor-General's award for children's literature a few years ago. It does rather make you want to read on, doesn't it? The narrator, Khyber, is 11. She has two brothers....