Representing the views of persons from a variety of fields including parents, educators, authors, librarians, and publishers, the papers in this journal issue explore the fine line between censorship (with an eye toward silencing ideas) and selection (with the recognition that just as literature can enlighten it can also degrade). Following an introduction by the editors, the article titles and their authors are as follows: (1) "Literature for Youth: Separate but Unequal" (Norma Klein); (2) "Random Notes from a Midnight Censor" (Gayle Greeno); (3) "Much Ado about Textbooks: The Cleansing of the Bard as Seen by a State Board Member" (Margaret Marston); (4) "Censorship: The ******* Solution" (Karla S. Henthorn); (5) "Censorship: Why or Why Not?" (Susan B. McLeskey); (6) "Will the Real Censors Please Stand Up?" (Carolyn Reas); (7) "A Profile in Censorship" (B. G. Raines); (8) "An Encounter with Censorship" (Mary Barnes); (9) "Self-Censorship: A Conservative View" (James D. Black); (10) "Censorship as an Ethical Issue" (Robert C. Hanna); (11) "Restrictions on Novel Could Be Positive" (Brian O'Neill); (12) "Don't Let Your Curriculum Be Hatch-eted" (Paul B. Slayton); (13) "Censorship and the Aim of Education: Some Unanswered Questions" (Onalee McGraw); (14) "Are School Censorship Pressures Increasing?" (Lee Burress); (15) "Sources of Censorship Pressure" (Judith Krug); (16) "Hidden Censorship: Fact or Fiction?" (Janis H. Bruwelheide); (17) "Whose Truth? Bias in Textbooks" (Dan Fleming); (18) "The New Right, Humanism, and 'Dirty Books'" (June Edwards); (19)"Accuracy in Academia: A New Threat to American Universities" (Ruth Cline); (20) "Being Prepared: Writing Rationales for Frequently Challenged Books" (Herb Thompson); (21) "Rationale for 'Bridge to Terabithia'" (Mary M. Brittain); (22) passages from "Areopagitica" (John Milton); (23) "Teaching A Poem" (Joseph Strzepek); (24) "Creating a Character" (Julia Shields); (25) "Reflecting upon Our Mortality" (Beth Schnell); and (26) "The Censor's Dilemma: Learning by Doing" (Dan Walker). (HTH)