Journal annielaurie's Journal: Challenged Books 2
Herewith, the list of 100 frequently banned books--that I've read either on my own, or to my children.
1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
16. Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
18. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
20. Earth's Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
22. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
23. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
25. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
26. The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
31. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
37. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
39. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
42. Beloved by Toni Morrison
43. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
47. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
51. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
52. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
55. Cujo by Stephen King
56. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
57. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
59. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
60. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
62. Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
67. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
69. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
71. Native Son by Richard Wright
77. Carrie by Stephen King
83. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
84. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
85. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
87. Private Parts by Howard Stern
88. Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford
89. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
90. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
91. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Wassup? (Score:2)
What's with this list? Are banned as in Illegal-to-Buy/Sell, or banned as in Don't-Spend-MY-School-Fees-on-These-Books.
If it's the former, that's bad.
The latter is not so bad - every community has finite resources to spend on the local library and there may be some books they would rather not spend their money on.
It's the golden rule - those who have the gold make the rules.
In this case, it's taxpayers, ratepayers or schoolfeepayers who are putting up the cash, so t
Re:Wassup? (Score:2)
I guess I'm of the ilk that would rather turn the kid loose among the books and let him (or her) decide what to read. We were, and are, a family of readers, and our kids (now grown) are also readers, and this worked out pretty well for us. Kids will ultimately become their own self-censors if permitted to select and read books in accordance with their own tast