Well, it's that time again, folks: Banned Books Week. Stand up for your First Amendment rights and read something by, oh maybe John Steinbeck. Or...Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood. Or...here's a shocker: Jean M. Auel (Earth's Children series...yep). Read Maurice Sendak and J.K. Rowling to your kids. Get really radical and read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, or A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. Those perennial winners (or should I say "losers" in this case?) The Catcher in the Rye and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are still out there upsetting parents. And teachers are still putting them on reading lists. Will we never learn? Anyway, you can get the whole story, as it were, from that radical leftist organization, The American Library Association - or just go here and get the list of the 100 most challenged books from 1990 to 2000. It was a very good decade.
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
DANGEROUS LIT
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I'll definitely check it out! Wow, I never realized Captain Underpants (from your illustration) was a banned book...we had tons of them at the library where I used to work! Very popular series of kids' books!
Oh, I'm going to have to link to this one.
The Catcher in the Rye is, and will forever remain, one of my favorite books of all time. Librarians are modern day heroes. Here's an excerpt from an article written for "In These Times" by one of my favs, Kurt Vonnegut:
"And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
I`d be afraid to read Harper Lee`s Book! LMAO!
Thanks,
V
I did more than read Mockingbird, I wrote about it..yesterday. Catcher's next.
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