Here’s another roundup of banned book news:
First, some small victories:
- Washington state library board stands up to censors
- Wisconsin mother who challenged school library books overruled by board of education
- Graphic novel Bone survives school library challenge
Still, there are miles to go before we sleep:
- Mom checks out teen books, keeps them to prevent kids from reading them
- Mom gets her 15 minutes of fame, takes the books back
- School library/curriculum book censorship alive & well in the Ozarks
- Childrens’ book author Dan Gutman discusses censorship attempts and what to do about them
- Cool graphic depiction of our most targeted books
- Complaining about nudity in a novel that contains no pictures is like complaining about there being too much sound in a sandwich
- iBooks’ word filter rejects “sperm”; Moby Dick rams Pequod in protest