Happy banned book week!

I'm listening to Huckleberry Finn (#5) to celebrate--the kids got the tape from the library for lights out listening pleasure. Here's a list of 100 most frequently challenged books so you can celebrate too.
So ... anyone want to guess why Where's Waldo made that list?

Thanks for the link, Guanna.

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  1. Hmmm. Because it teaches kids to look critically at graphic images?

    I was surprised to see that Ragtime isn't on the list. My sister, a high school English teacher, routinely uses Ragtime because the kids dig the sex scenes. There's a scene where one woman is giving another woman a massage (a GOOD one) and there's a guy hiding in a closet playing with himself.

    But I suspect the nutjobs who challenge books don't actually read the books they challenge.

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  2. Wendy's favorite challenged/banned books are: Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck (which makes me cry like a baby) and Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes (again with the crying). Both poignant, touching, heartbreaking books challenged due to sexual content (most of which flew over my head when I first read these titles as a teenager!) and language. Oh the bad language!

    Like kids aren't saying and doing a whole lot worse in the high school parking lot.....

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  3. I have to admit to being confused by the list. (admittedly I didn't delve very far). Are these books banned or merely contested. Where is the actual list of banned books, or is their very mention also banned?

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  4. Ooh! Ooh! I know why!!

    But that's probably cheating, since I'm a school librarian, and all.

    I just taught a Banned Book Week class to a bunch of middle schoolers. (Three bunches, actually, one after another.) I put a bunch of books on the tables and made 'em guess which was the most challenged or banned. One kid guessed it right away, because he'd read that book as a kid and said it was "freaky."

    Blog readers can find out what it is by clicking on the link Kate kindly provided. Hint: it has nothing to do with sex.

    Happy Banned Book Week!

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