Katherine Paterson, whom I had the great pleasure of meeting at the recent IBBY conference, has contributed eloquently to the ongoing discussion of the threat technology poses to children’s books.

My favorite part:

It is as futile for us to fight technological advances as it was for Plato to battle literacy. Yet I have hope. I have seven grandchildren, all of whom are well-equipped with electronic gadgets. Yet all of them are readers – because their parents are readers who have read to them, because they have teachers who care about literature and librarians who introduce them to books they will enjoy and be enriched by.