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    Commentary: Hard time and softback books: Teaching children's literature in prison

    by Kerry Madden-Lunsford, Los Angeles Times Apr 18, 2018 3 minutes

    "Only softback books are allowed inside." That's what the email from the prison liaison said.

    I stared at the stack of hardback picture books I'd gathered as samples for a class on writing for kids I was slated to teach the next day at William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility. Honestly, could a hardback of "Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel" be carved into a shiv? Never mind, I thought, and pulled out the soft covers, and packed sketchbooks, comic books, writers' magazines and notebooks and pens.

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