A Newfoundland author claims she is being censored after the province’s largest local book distributor refused to stock her children’s book because of its critical portrayal of the seal hunt.  Littleseal, written by Morgan Pumphrey, tells the tale of a harp seal pup born on the ice floes off northern Newfoundland.  During the first three weeks of his life, Littleseal survives encounters with an ecotourist and a hungry polar bear, as well as separation from its mother. But he’s killed after a “blinding, crunching, thud” at the hands of a seal hunter wielding a hakapik.
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Posted on December 31, 2008 by
