(1 across) What is the author of the teenage vampire series challenged for “causing kids to think even more of things sexual”? (4 across) Who is the main character if the book said to have “portrayed humans and animals on the same level”? (19 across) What book was challenged for “numbing students to the effects of violence”? … Continue reading
Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. ~Alfred Whitney Griswold, New York Times, 24 February 1959
Rocco Staino, Contributing editor of School Library Journal and a retired school librarian, tells us why and how books are banned.
“Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to use the language that was spoken during the period, for I refuse to whitewash history. The language was painful and life was painful for many African Americans, including my family. I remember the … Continue reading
Banned – The Dictionary: Merriam Webster and American Heritage Dictionaries are banned in some U.S. Schools. Some of the words inside are ‘not age appropriate’.
– “Every legislative limitation upon utterance, however valid, may in a particular case serve as an inroad upon the freedom of speech which the Constitution protects.” ~U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stanley F. Reed – “If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment it is that the Government may not prohibit the expression of … Continue reading
CPL Banned Books Week 