There was also evident annoyance at the perceived politicking of a New York office-holder who had forced the libraries to start buying Goosebumps. He came in and asked a group of children what they liked reading and they all said Goosebumps. So later he asked a librarian if he could take a look at a copy. When he was told the library didn't stock them, he made an issue of it. We have the First Amendment, which you don't.
Children have rights too.
But parents don't always see it that way. They ring up the library and ask us if we'll watch over their children when they use the Internet. But it's the parents' responsibility. Her description of groups of children gathering round a computer screen to download and print out hardcore porn pictures would, I'm sure, make the majority of British librarians blanch. Zuckerman, who had spoken to Geraldine Brennan of the TES earlier in the day, perceives the reviewing of children's books to be healthier in Britain than in the States.