A thing for your reading pleasure

[silveradept]

A funny thing happened while on the help desk today...

A parent called in to ask us whether we had our YA section separated out by smaller age divisions, because she was concerned about the content of a graphic novel her child was reading. Said graphic novel was Americus, a novel about a boy who gets motivated to fight against would-be religious zealots getting his favorite fantasy series banned from the public library.

And thus, the parent was concerned about the content of a book about a boy fighting people who were... concerned about the content of a book.

As Agent 86 was famous for saying... "Missed it by that much."

Comments

[nebris.livejournal.com]

You could have said, "Shhhh, go back to sleep," but I suppose that would just have confused them.

~M~

[silveradept]

Quite. They wouldn't have had a clue about the wide world around them.

[aurora77]

Aaaahahahahahhahahahaaa!

[silveradept]

Yeah. Was worried at the outset that it would be one of those kinds of conversations, and in the end, I just pointed out that the publishers do put age recommendations on their books and that parental involvement is usually how things like that go.

By the time I was finished, having read a summary of said graphic novel, I was already hearing Don Adams' voice in my head.