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LIFESTYLESSUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2010 1CBANNED!
BANNED!
For booklovers, the listof challengedand banned
books would be hilarious if it wasn’t sounsettling.
The list, a verylong one, includes“Little House on thePrairie,” “Moby-Dick,” “The Grapesof Wrath,” “LittleWomen,” the dic-tionary and evenEric Carle’s chil-dren’s book “BrownBear, Brown Bear,What Do You See?”—TheTexasBoardofEducationbanneditbecause theauthorhas the samenameas an obscure Marxist theorist and no
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“People are just shocked,” said KimbraCole, the youth services librarian at thePendleton Public Library. “They thinkthat this happened a long time ago, and wesay ‘No, it’s happening right now.’”
Cole, like librarians and booksellersacross the country, celebrated BannedBooks Week last week with displays of sur-prisingly banned books.
But it’s not the surprises that concernslibrarians most, such as the Illinois PoliceAssociation’s challenge of William Steig’s
The dictionary — Both the Merri-
am-Webster and the American
Heritage Dictionaries have been
banned in various schools. A Califor-
nia elementary school banned the
Merriam-Wester version in January
2010 for its definition of oral sex.
“It’s just not age appropriate,” a dis-
trict representative said.
The American Library Association’s
10 most surprising banned books
Dallas
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