6/29/2023 0 Comments Northern lights philipPullman said that banning a book on religious grounds was "the worst reason of the lot". Northern Lights was challenged over its "religious viewpoint", the ALA said. Northern Lights, the first in Pullman's bestselling Dark Materials trilogy, came in on the ALA list behind Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell's And Tango Makes Three, Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War and Kevin Henkes' Olive's Ocean. "It's a way of measuring the morals of today against those of yesterday," he said, adding that Borders have no plans to include books by Philip Pullman in the promotion. According to one of the chain's buyers, Rob Hughes, it has been"very successful", generating considerable interest in books which have been banned around the world in the past. It's a point given added weight by a promotion featuring censored books currently running at Borders bookshops. "Firstly, I had obviously annoyed a lot of censorious people, and secondly, any ban would provoke interested readers to move from the library, where they couldn't get hold of my novel, to the bookshops, where they could," Pullman said, pointing to previous objections to the film of The Golden Compass, which he said resulted in soaring book sales. Writing for this morning, Pullman said his immediate response on hearing the latest figures from the ALA was "glee".
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