Post by RoxMonster on Sept 21, 2014 21:00:14 GMT -5
In honor of Banned Books Week starting today, I thought we could post our favorite books that have been banned or challenged. If you aren't sure, you can find many lists of them here.
Mine are probably: -Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury -The Awakening by Chopin -The Handmaid's Tale by Atwood -To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee
Post by SpartanGirl on Sept 21, 2014 21:19:21 GMT -5
Harry Potter and To Kill a Mockingbird are definite favorites.
I was just telling my oldest about Banned Books Week and we read through the list to see which books she has read. I have to say seeing Where's Waldo on the challenge list has me wondering what is offensive about the series.
This is the first year in many that I probably won't be teaching Catcher in the Rye, which makes me incredibly sad. It's my favorite banned book in the classroom.
Post by sapphireblue on Sept 21, 2014 21:36:59 GMT -5
Well, I love Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird. Also, The Glass Castle.
A lot of the more recent lists are not actually banned books, but challenged books. Not quite the same thing. But still books that people protested being available.
Post by joshlyman on Sept 21, 2014 22:21:57 GMT -5
Oops, forgot HP and 1984!
It blows my mind every time I look at one of these lists. My precious buttercup gingersnap snowflake can't read about anything but synching bunnies and rainbows!!! He will totes be prepared for the real world!
This is the first year in many that I probably won't be teaching Catcher in the Rye, which makes me incredibly sad. It's my favorite banned book in the classroom.
Harry Potter and To Kill a Mockingbird are definite favorites.
I was just telling my oldest about Banned Books Week and we read through the list to see which books she has read. I have to say seeing Where's Waldo on the challenge list has me wondering what is offensive about the series.
There is a wizard - Whitebeard, I think? Anything that celebrates "pagan rituals" (like Harry Potter : typically gets challenged or "disappears" from libraries.
I love that you and your daughter read through the list to see what she has already read - that's so cool.
Post by rupertpenny on Sept 22, 2014 7:46:12 GMT -5
Banning a book for nudity would be funny if it weren't sad. Most of these books don't have pictures.
And challenging To Kill a Mockingbird because of racism? Someone missed the point.
I know this is naive of me, but I'm surprised so many books go "missing." I've never worked in a public library, but not banning books was pretty much a unity horse when I was in library school.
Banning a book for nudity would be funny if it weren't sad. Most of these books don't have pictures.
And challenging To Kill a Mockingbird because of racism? Someone missed the point.
I know this is naive of me, but I'm surprised so many books go "missing." I've never worked in a public library, but not banning books was pretty much a unity horse when I was in library school.
I don't think it's because librarians were removing the books. I think it's a combination of people who want to ban the book trying to make it disappear and people who are too embarrassed to check it out and simply take it.
Banning a book for nudity would be funny if it weren't sad. Most of these books don't have pictures.
And challenging To Kill a Mockingbird because of racism? Someone missed the point.
I know this is naive of me, but I'm surprised so many books go "missing." I've never worked in a public library, but not banning books was pretty much a unity horse when I was in library school.
I don't think it's because librarians were removing the books. I think it's a combination of people who want to ban the book trying to make it disappear and people who are too embarrassed to check it out and simply take it.
OK, this makes a lot more sense. I've never worked with circulating materials so I wasn't really aware of this. People need to pay more attention to Heinrich Heine: "Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings."
This is kind of blowing my mind because I read many of these books when I was homeschooled ... so when I was 9-11.
The Giver, by Lois Lowry My Brother Sam is Dead, by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Bridge To Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert Newton Peck In the Night Kitchen, by Maurice Sendak Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume On My Honor, by Marion Dane Bauer The Face on the Milk Carton, by Caroline Cooney The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain Summer of My German Soldier, by Bette Greene To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred Taylor The Upstairs Room, by Johanna Reiss A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L’Engle
I read several of these when I was in public school, and I know some of them are still available at my mom's school. The only way TJ ever got his reading requirements done in school was through Goosebumps.