Swearing in Children's Books
Channel: Good Story Company
Date: 19/01/2022

This is everybody's favorite fucking topic. It is swearing in children's books. Very controversial.

I'm not a prude in any way, shape, or form. But I feel very, very conservative when it comes to books for younger readers. You really have to also take into consideration the gatekeepers: teachers, librarians, parents, religious leaders, grandparents, kind of really making the purchasing decisions for board books, picture books, early readers, chapter books.

When you get into middle grade and young adult, the gatekeepers are a little less powerful. Kids of that age are gonna hear swearing, so it wouldn't necessarily be so out of line. There are gonna be some imprints that are more conservative, that are more buttoned-up, but there are gonna be some imprints where even sex, drugs, violence, and swearing happen in YA novels.

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