TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Greetings Infomaniacs,Our library just celebrated Banned Books Week from Sept. 24-Oct. 1. It's interesting to understand why books are banned and sometimes surprising to learn what books have been banned from a library or school system.
According to the American Library Association, books are usually banned "with the best intentionsâ??to protect others, frequently children, from difficult ideas and information." However, the First Amendment includes the right to read and write books that might be considered offensive to others.
Because of this, some feel that any form of censorship is wrong. Others think that people should be able to read what they choose, with only rare instances where censorship is acceptable.
Below you'll find more trivia on this topic and some interesting books that have been banned!
Enjoy!
MelissaQuestions? Comments?
Email MelissaTODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTEQUOTE: "Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear."
HINT: (1938-), American author, has written many novels for children and young adults.
RANDOM TIDBITSAt various times in our history, some of the tamest books
have been banned, including such children's classics as
Grimm's Fairy Tales and Little Red Riding Hoodâ??the former for being too violent and the latter because Little Red Riding Hood gives her grandmother a bottle of wine, which some feared would encourage drinking.
Another children's favorite, Harriet the Spy, was banned because it supposedly taught children to "lie, spy, back-talk, and curse."
Some of the classics of American literature have been banned, including J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn.
Among the young adult novels that have been banned are Are You There, God? Itâ??s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume; Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson; the Anastasia Krupnik series, by Lois Lowry; Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George; and The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton.
The Harry Potter books, by J. K. Rowling have been banned in certain places because they promote witchcraft, set bad examples, and are too dark.
A Light in the Attic, by Shel Silverstein was banned because of a suggestive illustration that might encourage kids to break dishes so they won't have to dry them.
(www.factmonster.com)
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Watch It Now: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***I am the black child of a white father;
A wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven.
I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me,
and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air.
What am I?
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTEQUOTE: "Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear."
ANSWER: Judy Blume.
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