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1st Amendment Versus Parenting: Banned Children's Books
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Books are banned from schools and libraries for many reasons. As the American Library Association notes, books are usually banned "with the best intentions—to protect others, frequently children, from difficult ideas and information." This is a list of children's books that have been banned at libraries and schools around the nation.
| | Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - Reason: Too depressing. |
| | The Bible - Reason: The issue of preaching religion in school. |
| | Blubber, by Judy Blume - Reason: The characters curse and the mean-spirited ringleader is never punished for her cruelty. |
| | Bony-Legs, by Joanna Cole - Reason: Deals with subjects such as magic and witchraft. |
| | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - Reason: Sexual content, offensive language and being unsuited to age group. |
| | The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier - Reason: Offensive language. |
| | Confessions of an Only Child, by Norma Klein - Reason: Use of profanity by the lead character's father. |
| | Forever by Judy Blume - Reason: Sexual content and offensive language. |
| | Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh - Reason: Teaches children to lie, spy, talk back, and curse. |
| | A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich, by Alice Childress - Reason: Anti-American and immoral. |
| | The House without a Christmas Tree, by Gail Rock - Reason: Uses the word damn. |
| | In a Dark, Dark Room, and Other Scary Stories, by Alvin Schwartz - Reason: Too morbid for children. |
| | In the Night Kitchen, by Maurice Sendak - Reason: Nudity; Mickey loses his pajamas during his fall in the kitchen. |
| | It's Perfectly Normal - Reason: Homosexuality, nudity, sex education, religious viewpoint, abortion and being unsuited to age group. |
| | It's So Amazing! A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families, by Robie H. Harris - Reason: It covers sexual issues. |
| | A Light in the Attic, by Shel Silverstein - Reason: A suggestive illustration that might encourage kids to break dishes so they won't have to dry them. |
| | Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, by William Steig - Reason: The characters are all shown as animals; the police are presented as pigs. |
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Comment by: prattedit Man! Some of these are classics. We're too uptight when it comes to our children.
Comment by: buccicone.2 I'm a rebel, I read banned books and so have my daughters. In fact, our school system allows the classics despite some being considered inappropriate.
(Huckleberry Finn, Rebecca, Harry Potter, etc.)
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