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Originally posted by lovelyivy84
How could they ban A Light In The Attic? That was a staple of my childhood! And A Wrinkle in Time???? WTF! They objected to Charles Wallace or something?
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I've seen A Light in the Attic on banned book lists before, and I think the reason quoted for its banning is that it "promotes disobedience to authority."
That could be a possible reason for A Wrinkle in Time to be banned, too, since Meg is a "bad girl" who doesn't get what's coming to her.
I looked up why Where's Waldo? is banned: someone is claiming that on one of the pages there is a topless sunbather. Hahahahaha. The Face on the Milk Carton was challenged for "inappropriate sexual content," which is what I was guessing -- because yeah, we all know that high school seniors and sophomores don't do anything except hold hands and kiss on the cheek. And one of the reasons the Anastasia books were banned was "underage drinking" -- remember how her dad used to let her sip the foam off of his beer before he drank it?
For those Canadians out there that are shocked at that list -- keep in mind that these books are rarely banned even here. Easily half of those books were required reading in some class in my school district or kept in the classrooms for students to read for fun: in the top twenty alone, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Chocolate War, Huck Finn, Of Mice and Men, Bridge to Terabithia, My Brother Sam is Dead (I HATED this book, by the way), Catcher in the Rye, and the Giver were all required reading.
I feel bad for any kids who attend schools that have banned these books, because they're missing out on some of the greatest kid lit heros of the past fifty years. Anastasia Krupnik, Alice from the Alice books, Janie from The Face on the Milk Carton, Margaret from Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, Scout Finch, Meg from A Wrinkle in Time -- I can't imagine how I would have turned out without some of these characters. And how many teenagers has Holden Caulfield made adolescent angst more bearable for?