Banned Books Week Handbook Online

[nosmokes]

some entries aren't really surprising, some are perpetual enties and you'd think, or at least you'd hope that we'd have made some progress to the point whereTo kill a Mockingbird orHuckleberry Finn doesn't hafta keep getting challenged by some small minded ignorant self-righteous asswipe every damn year.

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September 23 - 30, 2006

iurge you to contact your kid's school librarian or your local librirary and ask if there have been any attempts at censorship in your community and let yout librarians know that you stand behind their efforts to resist such attempts wholeheaartedly. remember, librarians are on the frontlines of the war on the first amendment.

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1. Hmmm

While there are some multiple requests from some other cities, it appears Fayetteville, Arkansas is the most outspoken knuckledragging, book-banning capitol of the U.S. I'm glad I don't live there.

[Donnachaidh]

2. why in hell would To Kill A Mockingbird be banned?

It's a wonderfully-written book.

Now the crap that Coultergeist and O'Reilly publish -- THAT should be burned AND banned.

[cynatnite]

3. This is freaking unbelievable

I loved reading Judy Blume as a kid.

The Anastasia series:

Preteen girls have been enjoying Lowry’s popular Anastasia series for over 25 years. Lowry was shocked to hear that a parent from Polk County School District in Florida wants to remove six of the Anastasia books from school libraries in the district. Kristi Hardee, the mother of a fourth-grader in the district, objects to references to stuffing and snapping bras in the series.

(to note that stuffing and snapping bras is not an original idea of the writer. At 12 years old my friends and I stuffed our little bras and we did our fair share of snapping. :eyes: Geez.)

I don't believe in censorship by the schools or the government. Having said that, if my daughter was younger or my son a little older, I would be watching their reading choices closely. She's 16 years old now and is fully capable of determining what she reads. She's got a good head on her shoulders and knows what she likes.

I do think if parents are so worried about what their kids read, perhaps working with the schools to know what their children are getting is better than banning books.

[Nikki Stone 1]

4. That fake shrink, Laura Schlessinger, runs her mouth against the ALA

all the time. She gets parents all hysterical about books like Blume's.

We need to support libraries. It's bad enough they are getting few tax dollars but they are under constant assault by busybodies and the Justice Department who think if you take out a book about chemical warfare that you're a potential terrorist.