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Originally Posted by Minarai  You must have an old edition.
From what I've learned, the book was redrawn in 1997 in response to complaints from parents.
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Well, shoot, that pisses me off. Now I wanna ban it.
Last week was banned books week, so at my daughter's elementary school library, she put out the banned books on display, and had written down why they were banned, I guess if kids had asked.
I've never been sure under what authority books were banned, but I assumed it was something from years ago, and people just talked about it as history. But the Banned Book Week site says this:
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| Banned Books Week is the only national celebration of the freedom to read. It was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. More than a thousand books have been challenged since 1982. The challenges have occurred in every state and in hundreds of communities. |
They have a map of challenges:
http://bannedbooksweek.org/Mapofbookcensorship.html
It's funny, my state has no challenges. Maybe our libraries aren't all that objectionable. I will say that teachers and/or parents will let the librarian know what they think is OK. She had a few books back behind the counter on a shelf, because she wasn't sure if they were more for middle schoolers or older elementary kids. She had had a comment from a teacher about a few of them. I end up reading these books and giving my opinion. A lot of children's books are violent and feature children whose lives are in peril. But, honestly, in kids books that seems the norm rather than the exception, and that's not the problem people have. These books were no different, but the one had a mild scene that talked about teens having sex. Geez, if that's the only issue, what about the fact that they are starving and freezing?
