Here’s another digest of book banning news from the USA (and Canada, where I thought they had better sense):
- The New Yorker on A Wrinkle in Time (including some interesting news about Philip Pullman’s Golden Compass movies, which I sincerely hope is not true).
- More on Philip Pullman and his new novel The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.
- The New Yorker again, this time on South Park & The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs.
- A teacher’s sensible views on book banning.
- Our neighbors to the north are upset about a school library book that takes the side of the Palestinians. Another link.
- Apparently you can’t call a biblical myth a biblical myth. With some parents, the only acceptable wording is biblical truth. Of course if that’s the case, why do you need to teach biology at all?
- Well, hell . . . it doesn’t matter what you write, someone is going to want to ban you.
- Goth girls & Twilight lovers beware: they’re coming after your vampire books.
- Texters, you’re in their crosshairs too.
- American Library Association’s top ten list of banned books of 2009.
- ALA’s top 100 banned/challenged books: 2000-2009.
- Gays, of course, know a thing or two about book banning.
- TV talk & gossip shows seem to be under some pressure not to interview Kitty Kelley, author of Oprah: A Biography. I wonder why?