Banned Book Week - American Library Association -- book banning puppets video

 

 

The First Amendment
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/firstamendment/firstamendment.cfm

Celebrate Banned Book Week - Read Write Think

Some of the reasons for books being challenged

  • “anti-family”
  • "socially offensive"
  • “unsuited to age group”
  • “offensive language”
  • “violent”
  • “promoting a religious viewpoint” - "irreligious"
  • “racism”
  • “occult theme or promoting the occult or Satanism,”
  • "sexually explicit” material
Rights of the Reader PDF

 

Top 10 challenged authors 1990 to the present

  • Alvin Schwartz
  • Judy Blume
  • Robert Cormier
  • J. K. Rowling
  • Katherine Paterson
  • Stephen King
  • Maya Angelou
  • R. L. Stine
  • John Steinbeck

Other frequently challenged authors of 21st century

  • Chris Crutcher
  • Keven Henkes
  • SE Hinton
  • Stephen King
  • Lois Lowry
  • Walter Dean Myers
  • Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
  • Gary Paulsen
  • Dav Pilkey
  • Philip Pullman
  • Maurice Sendak

Classic authors challenged

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • William Golding
  • Joseph Heller
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Harper Lee
  • Jack London
  • George Orwell
  • J. D. Salinger
  • John Steinbeck
  • Mark Twain

 

 

 

book titles

 

Some of the 100 most frequently challenged books 1990 - 2000 (see also PPT)

  • Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
  • The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  • Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
  • Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
  • Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
  • My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry
  • Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
  • A Day No Pigs Would Dieby Robert Newton Peck
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  • The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
  • Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
  • Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
  • In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
  • The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
  • The Witches by Roald Dahl
  • Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
  • The Goats by Brock Cole
  • Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
  • Blubber by Judy Blume
  • Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
  • Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
  • We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
  • Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
  • The Pigman by Paul Zindel
  • Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
  • Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  • A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
  • Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
  • Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
  • The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  • Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
  • Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
  • How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
  • View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
  • The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
  • Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

 

Most Challenged/banned classics or simple list of book titles

Information from http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/

see also Banned Books Online -for more international titles


2010 Banned Books Week Machinima Contest winner As part of its celebration of Banned Books Week in Second Life, the Office for Intellectual Freedom held a Banned Books Week Machinima Contest. Machinima is filmmaking within a real-time, 3-D virtual environment like Second Life. Four entries with the BBW theme of "Think For Yourself and Let Others Do the Same" were submitted. Clark Abismo's robot-themed entry (5:00, above) was the winner, but the other submissions by MimiSoleil Firelight (2:56), Tidewater Community College's Rosie (2:39), and Iono Allen and Miso Susanow (5:29) are worth watching....

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