You Can't Read This: Forbidden Books, Lost Writing, Mistranslations, and Codes
By Val Ross
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Written for children ages ten and up, You Can’t Read This explores the development of alphabets, the decoding of ancient languages, and censorship in Ancient Rome and modern America. It's about secret writing, trashed libraries, writers on the run, writers in hiding, books that are thought to have magical powers and mistranslations that started wars. It's about people: from the American slave Frederick Douglass to girls in Afghanistan in the year 2001 who defied laws that prevented them from learning to read.
What do all these stories have in common?
They’re all about how texts contain power – and how people everywhere throughout history have devoted their wills and their brains to reading and unleashing the power of the word.
With lavish illustrations and an index, this is history at its finest.
Val Ross
Val Ross is a lifelong dreamer and procrastinator. By now, she should have written at least five books in the Veridurum Series, but four of them are still fighting for attention inside her head. She does write an intermittent blog, facebook updates, occasional letters to the local paper and shopping lists; these rare manuscripts will no doubt be worth a fortune one day.A former Primary School teacher and gift shop manager, (not at the same time) Val's achievements include assembling several items of flat-pack furniture and managing reasonably competent parallel parking (also not at the same time).Val lives in Yorkshire, tolerated and humoured by many good friends.
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