Emerald City Podcast: A Woggle-Bug in Detroit

In this second episode of the Emerald City podcast, I continue my discussion of the censorship of the Oz books by looking at the 1957 campaign of Ralph Ulveling, a librarian in Detroit, to keep children away from Baum's books.  In this episode, I touch upon the following issues:

• The immense popularity of the Oz books and their value in getting children interested in reading.
• The difference between library "selection" and "censorship."
• How the concerns of librarians forming collections are often at odds with the children reading the "selected" books.

We have a second example of an over-zealous librarian failing to find the joy in the land of Oz.