{"id":668,"date":"2008-06-04T21:25:10","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T16:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-protests-age-categorisation-for-childrens-literature\/"},"modified":"2008-06-04T21:29:42","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T16:29:42","slug":"pullman-protests-age-categorisation-for-childrens-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-protests-age-categorisation-for-childrens-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Pullman protests age categorisation for children&#8217;s literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the autumn, leading publishers plan to introduce labelling to the covers of all children&#8217;s books indicating whether they&#8217;re intended for ages 5+, 7+, 9+, 11+ or 13+\/teen. Outraged at the move, Philip Pullman is leading a group of over 80 authors,    illustrators, librarians, teachers and booksellers who have joined together in protest. Pullman writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I don&#8217;t want to see the book itself declaring officially, as if with my approval, that it is for readers of 11 and upwards or whatever. I write books for whoever is interested. When I write a book I don&#8217;t have an age group in mind.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pullman himself will not be subject to this simplistic classification as his publishers (Scholastic) have agreed with his wishes to omit it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2074620\/Philip-Pullman-leads-author-revolt-against-age-banding-for-children's-books.html\">Read the telegraph article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the autumn, leading publishers plan to introduce labelling to the covers of all children&#8217;s books indicating whether they&#8217;re intended for ages 5+, 7+, 9+, 11+ or 13+\/teen. Outraged at the move, Philip Pullman is leading a group of over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-protests-age-categorisation-for-childrens-literature\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","category-philip-pullman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}