Grab A Torch For Banned Books Week
IT’S Banned Books Week.In America:
Banned Books Week is the only national celebration of the freedom to read. It was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. More than a thousand books have been challenged since 1982.
Can a student just stand up and challenge the book in class?
According to the American Library Association, more than 400 books were challenged in 2007. The 10 most challenged titles were:
It’s the must-buy guide:
- And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes
- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- TTYL by Lauren Myracle
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Daily Mail is a newspaper…
September 29th, 2008 at 12:10 am
Huckleberry Finn? oh well then…
September 29th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Yes, but challenged why? Let’s have the whole story.
September 29th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Banned books. Oh the sheer joy of them! Banning books is a brilliant way to create best-sellers.
Oh the joy of being a Catholic teenager in the sixties with a book from the ‘index’ under the desk-lid. With hindsight most of them were deadly boring but still we sniggered our way through them. They were banned so they had to be good, didn’t they?! Lady Chatterley’s Lover being one such tome. If it had been a GCE choice it would have been boring but as it was BANNED….. wow.
Of course, another good way to get a best-seller is to have your office fire-bombed in protest! Very effective.