PC Blurb
When even the author's blurb on the front page of a children's novel complies with the canons of PC orthodoxy, one can see how far things have gone.
Michael Morpurgo, noted children's writer, rejoices that one of his novels, Kensuke's Kingdom, has been printed on environmentally "compliant" paper. This is displayed across the top of the front cover, a place usually reserved for recommendations of an author's work - not comments by the author upon his own work!
The fact that anyone thinks that this has a bearing on the quality of the book or it's contents is startling. Rather it is a none-too-subtle indoctrination of our children into thinking that this might be the most important aspect of the book, even before the story begins.