" You have every right to allow your child not to read , but you do n’t get to trample on the rights of parents like my mother and my aunts . "
Book banning is nothing new, and the act of censorship within the literary realm will most likely never cease to exist.
Recently, a school board inthe state of Florida banned a book about book bans. Yup, you read that correctly.Ban this Bookby Alan Gratz will no longer be available to read in the Indian River county school district.
The book in question follows Amy Anne as she tries to check out her favourite book, but the librarian tells her she cannot as it has been banned after a parent deemed it inappropriate. In turn, Amy creates a secret banned-book library, and defies the concept of censorship.
We often say life imitates art, and well, that appears to be true. A parent requested this book to be banned as it “teaches rebellion of school-board authority”. The best part? A far-right group called “Moms for Liberty” were supportive of the ban. Does anyone else feel the sheer irony of it all?
Here are some of the wildest reasons that other books have been banned:
Where’s Waldo?by Martin Handford
Captain Underpantsby Dav Pilkey
The Hunger GamesbySuzanne Collins
The Handmaid’s Taleby Margaret Atwood
China Dreamby Ma Jian
All Boys Aren’t Blueby George M. Johnson
Harry Potterby J.K. Rowling
The Catcher in the Ryeby J.D. Salinger
Little Red Riding Hood
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?by Bill Martin Jr.
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