"Then there are books which are so despised by, for example, the Loving Covenant of Baptist Libraries that they will seek to acquire copies and destroy them. In some few cases they are quite successful. There was a children’s story rumoured to contain an actual magic spell that they have entirely obliterated in its English-language edition. Very sad: the illustrations were full plate by Jackie Morris." Shand shakes his head. This, evidently, is cultural vandalism.