Banned Books Week

Scholastic, the Walmart of Publishing, should get stuffed....

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Ordered my new Banned Book Week shirt :)!

"i banned book bracelets" in stock at ala store. new necklace and pins on my site. immediate delivery.

Check out this Banned Book Week interview I did with Angela Maycock from ALA @ Chicago Public Radio's vocalo.org
http://vocalo.org/explore/content/49501

She didn't say she's a typing teacher. :)

THANK YOU LOCAL LIBRARIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you to all the librarians.

I thought banned books week was at the end of September . . . what am I missing?

Can you imagine Thomas Jefferson ever agreeing to a book banning,, not likely,,, the people in history who have been most successful at banning books have had funny mustaches,, or worn red stars on their clothes

There really needs to be an alternative to the "Like" button.

Like a "Man, that's F'd up!!" button.

Fahrenheit 451 anyone? The Federal Government should stick to what it does best (whatever the hell that is) and leave decisions on what to read, in the people who will choose the books.

Children aren't the property of their Children!

Huh? Do you mean children aren't the property of their parents? If so, they very early are according to the law of the land. I do agree that the government should leave restricting reading to parents, not limiting the information allowed to anyone.

What books, I wonder? How can we know what their content is like, unless they give titles? And what is this "federal definition of 'harmful to minors'" they mention?

I for one am appalled at the thought of banning books. as someone said above it is real life the author is trying to capture. With the growing rate of teen pregnancy and the outstanding numbers of preteens and teens coming into the ER for help with STDs these days taking books like this away and not sitting down to talk to them about the true ... See Moreissues is saying there is no problem to begin with. People are blinded when it comes to there children, I have three daughters myself and I am so scared to allow them out into the 'real' world. As another said in the remarks below one of the articles who is that one mother and a board to tell my children what is and isn't up to their levels of understandings. Education is so important and the lack there of is why this is even an issue.

What I find frightening about this, and I do mean frightening in the sense it scares the crap out of me, is that the books are just the tip of the iceberg. What we have here is the restriction of thought, of ideas, the banning of divergent opinions and ideologies. Groups of individuals with very specific agendas, whether they are religious, ... See Moreideology based, or a combination of the two, are seeking to control what you can think, say, agree or disagree with.

Think about other instances in history when information was controlled and only that information that was deemed "Acceptable" by the controlling group was disseminated. Spain during the Inquisition under the Catholic Church, Russia under Marx and Lennon, Germany under the Nazi party. Is that really a road we, as a society want to risk heading down?

We certainly need more dedicated people like her!

What a loss. She did such important work and will be missed.

Amen.

Yes, I agree. Judy rocked.