At the first of the month I did my second post on banned books. Now it is time for the next installment in the series! Several of you have given your opinions on the books that I’ve listed and I’m looking forward to more great information from all of you.
These are books 21-30 from the
ALA’s 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000
- The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
- Haven’t read it.
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- I love this entire series and it is completely beyond me why this would be banned….anyone?
- Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
- Haven’t read it.
- Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
- Haven’t read it.
- In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
- Haven’t read it.
- The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
- Haven’t read it.
- The Witches by Roald Dahl
- Haven’t read it.
- You’ll have to go look if you want to know
- Not putting it in my blog because of one of the key words. I don’t have a problem with the book but don’t want anyone finding me with that one word. I’ll give you a hint…it starts with an ‘s’.
- Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
- Don’t know it but generally love the books written by Lowry
- The Goats by Brock Cole
- Haven’t read it.
I’m sorry I don’t know more about these but I am determined to go through the list of one hundred banned books. Once I’ve listed them all along with the ones I have and have not read I intend to go back and….ok big step here…I’m going to… read them all. Well…maybe not all of them but all of the ones I think might actually be in a school. So there would be the exception of a few that would obviously, in my mind anyway, not typically be found in a school anyway. Not that I’m for censorship, think I covered that already. BUT the librarians I know spend their book money pretty carefully and some of these books would never make it out of a preliminary budget.
Have you read any of these books? What did you think of them? Good for a school library or not something you’d want your child to read?
I’m very confused about why some of these books are on this list. Even as a Christian I find no harm in many of them. Dahl was probably the most controversial of his day for reasons beyond his lit but for the most part most fairy tales were probably more offensive then anything he has written. His Witches hardly compares to Harry Potter (which I’ve been told is modeled after real witchcraft). I’ve read nearly everything by Dahl and while he has mean people galore in his books (Ummm I believe they call that an antagonist people…LOL) he is quite entertaining and full of important lessons.
A Wrinkle in Time…are you kidding me. Someone just doesn’t want kids to learn anything.
Paterson? Lowry? Sendak? Huh. And to think of all the other crap they let our kids read today.
Perhaps a series called The Stupids is annoying but I think in reading a book of this nature lends more to social commentary than watching Ed, Edd and Eddy on TV. Although I will preface I haven’t read the Stupids.
I agree, I don’t get how many of the books made the list. As a side note…Harry Potter nothing like real witchcraft. I’ve read all the books and have also read about witchcraft (what can I say, the Salem trials made me curious) and I didn’t see anything to connect the two.