Here’s an excellent summary of the growing power of organized book-banning groups. The internet helps us, but it helps them too!
I usually limit these book-banning digests to news to from North America, but this article on international book-banning is too interesting not to share.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower has been challenged again, this time in New York.
Feminists upset with certain fairy tales for not being feminist? Excuse me, but isn’t that rather the norm for fairy tales?
Remember those New Hampshire parents who wanted the book Nickel and Dimed banned from their son’s high school reading list? Now they’re after Water for Elephants. And what’s worse? The high school caved to them in both cases!
Those same new Hampshire parents would love this new Tennessee school policy: any given book is to be pulled from school library shelves on an “emergency” basis upon receipt of a single parental complaint.
“Is it okay to run an illegal library from my locker at school?” Even though this letter seems phony, you have to admire the spirit behind it!
Yup, sounds like a description of sex to me … but is it pornographic? Hardly.
If we can insist libraries remain open to all books and all ideas, can we also insist they ban certain groups from using their facilities for meetings? A squirm-inducing dilemma, indeed.