Ross, Val.

You can't read this : forbidden books, lost writing, mistranslations & codes / Val Ross. - Toronto : Tundra Books, c2006. - 140 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

The first readers -- Language lost and language found -- The poet and the emperor -- The made-to-order alphabet -- The prayerful pagodas -- The stolen story -- The pillage of Baghdad -- Giving books to the people -- Darkness upon the deep -- The cousins and the code -- Books not to be read -- The dreadul Mr. Shakespeare -- A book at his fingertips -- Freddy the slave boy -- The two-faced treaty -- The evil world of ... comic books? -- Days of the Taliban -- Access denied.

ISBN: 088776732X : $26.99 9780887767326

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Books and reading--History.
Reading--History.
Children's literature--2006.

Dewey Class. No.: j028/.09