The Little Red Schoolbook Soren Hansen
Publisher: Stage 1

He was convicted under the 1959 and 1964 Acts on the basis that the book was obscene, it tending to deprave and corrupt its target audience, children. They were the sort of things I liked to read. Mortimer fulfilled the same role three years later, this time unsuccessfully, for Richard Handyside, the English publisher of The Little Red Schoolbook. Mortimer was defence counsel at the Oz conspiracy trial later in 1971. I refused to be a prefect or to apply to Oxbridge (alas) because I was anti-elitist. I was a hippy and I read counter-culture things like The Little Red School Book. Was this not one of the reasons why The Little Red School Book was banned? Of course, it was banned as “indecent”… *facepalm*. Posted by Ruby at 11:49 · Email ThisBlogThis! There was also the magazine “Odd” which we all loved. This rhyme teaches independence in I have had to be The Little Red Hen on many occasions during my adult lifetime. I sold "Quotations from Chairman Mao" and "The Little Red Schoolbook" to my fellow pupils. Probably my favorite nursery rhyme as a child was The Little Red Hen. As for gay rights, there was a 'subversive' booklet called “The Little Red Schoolbook” which was so progressive that it presaged the 21st century. The appellant had published a 'Little Red Schoolbook'.