![]() ![]() There are no bad authors for children… because every child is different. The League described Eleanor and Park as ‘crude and sexually charged material’ containing 227 instances of ‘profanity’. Rainbow Rowell’s reaction to the Parents Action League campaign to remove her books from schools in Annoka-Hennepin, America. That ugly things cancel out everything beautiful. ![]() That if you grow up in an ugly situation, your story isn’t even fit for good people’s ears. When these people call Eleanor & Park an obscene story, I feel like they’re saying that rising above your situation isn’t possible. The original Queen of teen, Judy Blume, author of books includin g Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret and Forever, which caused ripples of extreme shock and horror when published over 40 years ago owing to their frank sexual content. And if they don’t know about it, it won’t happen.’ They want to believe that if their children don’t read about it, their children won’t know about it. This fear is often disguised as moral outrage. Book banning satisfies their need to feel in control of their children’s lives. I believe that censorship grows out of fear, and because fear is contagious, some parents are easily swayed. So said Peter Scheer, executive director of the California First Amendment Coalition, when the tenth edition of the Merriam Webster dictionary was banned in a Southern California school after a parent complained that the offending dictionary included a definition of “oral sex”. In 2014 protesters against a military seizure of power in Thailand used this gesture from Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games series to symbolise their resistance to the new regime. Liesl Meminger, the Book Thief of Marcus Zusak’s bestselling novel, steals a half-burned book from the edge of one of these bonfires.Īt first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. In Nazi Germany, many books were considered so dangerous that they were publicly burnt. It seemed to be igniting…Beneath her shirt the book was eating her up. By the time she made it back to Papa and Wolfgang Edel, the book was starting to burn her. As she began walking, though, it began to heat up again. At first, it was nice and warm against her chest. The book felt cool enough now to slip inside her uniform. His coming of age novel has faced censorship in the USA and Canada. Stephen Chbosky, author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower. It closes our ears when we need to listen. So if anyone ever threatens to ban books in your school, here are some quotations to inspire you to defend your right to read dangerous books:īanning books give us silence when we need speech.
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