Books That Were Once Banned

I just read an article about books that were once banned and for what reasons. It really intrigued me, so I decided to look up other books that had once been banned, and it’s pretty shocking. Here are my top 5:

1. Brave New World. Aldous Huxley.

Banned in Ireland (1932). Removed from classroom in Miller, Mo. (1980). Challenged at the Yukon, Okla. High School (1988); challenged as required reading in the Corona-Norco, Calif. Unified School District (1993) because the book “centered around negative activity.”

2. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank.

Challenged in Wise County, Va. (1982) due to “sexually offensive” passages. Four members of the Alabama State Textbook Committee (1983) called for the rejection of this book because it is a “real downer.

3. James and the Giant Peach. Roald Dahl.

Challenged at the Deep Creek Elementary School in Charlotte Harbor, Fla. (1991) because it is “not appropriate reading material for young children.” Challenged at the Pederson Elementary School in Altoona, Wis. (1991) and at the Morton Elementary School library in Brooksville, Fla. (1992) because the book contains the word “ass” and “promotes” the use of drugs (tobacco, snuff) and whiskey. Removed from classrooms in Stafford County, Va. Schools (1995) and placed in restricted access in the library because the story contains crude language and encourages children to disobey their parents and other adults.

4. A Light in the Attic. Shel Silverstein.

Challenged at the Cunningham Elementary School in Beloit, Wis. (1985) because the book “enourages children to break dishes so they won’t have to dry them.” Removed from Minot, N.Dak. Public School libraries when the superintendent found “suggestive illustrations.” Challenged at the Big Bend Elementary School library in Mukwonago, Wis. (1986) because some of Silverstein’s poems “glorified Satan, suicide and cannibalism, and also encouraged children to be disobedient.

5. The Lorax. Dr. Seuss.

Random. Challenged in the Laytonville, Calif. Unified School District (1989) because it “criminalizes the foresting industry.”

info via http://title.forbiddenlibrary.com/

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27 Things To Do In My 27th Year

1. Run/walk in a 5k for charity

2. Take a photography class

3. Fix my friendships with L and B

4. Reduce my carbon footprint from 9co^2 tons/yr to 7co^2 tons/yr

5. Plant a tree

6. Do Kareoke at a real place, not just at a house- should be VERY funny

7. Stop being afraid of letting everyone down again and have a little faith in me

8. Convert my my old VHS collection to DVD

9. Archive all my photographs

10. Exercise

11. Go with Baby to Mommy and Me, or something like it

12. Send out Holiday cards

13. Use the coupons that I diligently cut out every week instead of letting them sit organized in my filofax for 6 months

14. Start graduate school application process- either for nursing or teaching or both

15. Pay at least $100 on the principal of my charge cards - I only have two

16. Create a "Rainy Day" fund for emergencies

17. Make side by side hand prints in cement with Baby

18. Learn how to make one meal, that's not breakfast, really well

19. Save up for a Spa Day with Sara- B can watch the young folk

20. Go to a museum

21. Prevent wrinkles

22. Start Baby's quilt of her baby clothes

23. Attempt to figure out what it is that I actually believe in- faith wise- so that I can teach it to Baby

24. Read at least two books of substance

25. Go to a psychic or a fortune teller or a qi reader or an aura person

26. Drink some Carolina Blond out of my Green Leafe Mug, at the Green Leafe, on Mug Night

27. Don't take one minute of my time with Baby for granted- or the rest of my family

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