Banned Books?

[Drakain63]

The Adventures of Huck Finn, A Wrinkle in Time, The Outsiders, A Light in the Attic, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Little Black Sambo, and How to Eat Fried Worms were all required reading or read to us as elementary school children.

Lord of the Flies, Flowers for Algernon, among many others on that list were all required reading at my high school... and I went to a very rural school in the midwest. We're not all turbo religious nutjobs here.

[Lost Ranger]

I can agree with The Catcher in the Rye if its being banned from younger grades but I think it is a fantastic book that high schoolers should read.

[HiroYagyu]

Christ, wouldn't want any educational books getting into the hands of kids that might have questions and are too nervous to ask adults about it.

-What's Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
-What's Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
-Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
-Sex Education by Jenny Davis


this blows my mind. Or is it a different book than I'm thinking of
-Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford

I lol'd at this
-The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein

[Surlok TP]

Originally Posted by HiroYagyu

this blows my mind. Or is it a different book than I'm thinking of
-Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford

Since there is no words in Where's Waldo then one can assume there is something offensive in the art,so I googled Where's Waldo and Nudity.

The original print of the book had a beach scene where the was implied nudity via a breast,the subsequent editions had said breast or something covered with a bikini top.

[Arbitrary]

There are plenty of bannings that are really quite boring.

Huck Fin has racial slurs! B&!

.................k?

[PerritoBites]

burn

[Neph]

Originally Posted by Agraza

lol@scary stories

Hey now, while the stories were cheesy, the illustrations were pretty creepy. I remember having a nightmare or two from them. But heaven forbid we give children nightmares!

edit: pics

[The Ancient]

Scary Stories really fucked me up when I was a kid. Not that I'd suggest banning them, but man a few of them scared the shit out of me.

Where's Waldo suggested for censorship? WTF?

[XadionDarkborn]

I had required reading for many of those books in highschool and it was a christian school...so not all of that is bible belting peeps

[DoctorSpooge]

The Scary Stories series scared the shit out of me as a kid as well. The Bloody Fingers story gave me nightmares