A 1979 ban request.
And then there's Wendy's perspective over at Six Boxes of Books: Would you ever challenge a book?
I'm curious about Daniel Boone and Amos Freeman, now - I never read either, and we own them both.
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Wow, what a great link, Shelley--thanks. I'm ashamed that I've never really THOUGHT about the complex issues surrounding banning (or, as this post clarifies, "challenging") books. I was just always a knee-jerk banning-banner. And everyone comments to the post were so civil and well thought-out!
There's a big difference between banning a book and questioning its presence/validity in a curriculum. I do think that what teachers require kids to read in class needs to meet a more rigorous standard, and it's within parental rights to question what is being taught in a curricular unit. (Like signing the paper to opt in/out of sex ed.) However, banning a book by removing it from a school or library completely out of access to readers is a different story all together. Kids and parents together should make those types of reading choices.
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