This seems to me like one of these things that if a parent wants to censur what books thier children read, thats fine. But to say that these children should not have a library card? Thats pushing it. There are a lot of books that were written by nonjewish authors that are completely fine.
The point of contention here isn’t whether or not the concept of a Kosher Non-Jewish book exists; the discussion is whether to (a) allow our kids to be exposed to the world of secular reading to ensure they don’t fall down from the high standards of Yiddishkeit we expect, and (b) even if we allow our children to read these books, should we allow them to go to a library, where there is such an array of Tumah.
After all aren’t we the people of the book.
Lehavdil. I hope that was a joke.
Another thing, if we say that nonjewish books are all bad what message does that send to our children about the nonjews? We need to work with these people.
We would only say that non-Jewish books are bad if the content was non desirable, and in that case, you cannot worry about the ‘message that sends to our children’ – on the contrary, this is message we need to send them – we are different, we are an Am Kadosh, and pastimes, activites and thoughts are totally different. We may have to ‘work with these people’, but that is no reason for us to become like them. We are not trying to integrate with the goyim, we are trying to survive a golus.