More than a book a day challenged in U.S. schools, libraries
This year will mark the 25th anniversary of Banned Book Week.
From an ALA announcement:
More than a book a day faces expulsion from free and open public access in U.S. schools and libraries every year. There have been more than 8,700 attempts since the American Library Association (ALA) began electronically compiling and publishing information on book challenges in 1990.
Twenty-five years after the first observance of Banned Books Week, more than 1,000 people stayed past 1 a.m. debating a request to remove nine books – including “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien and “Beloved” by Toni Morrison – from a Chicagoland school district. The books were ultimately retained.
“Forever” by Judy Blume was one of more than 70 titles a Fayetteville, Ark., mother requested be removed in 2005. Twenty-five years earlier, the book was restricted in the Park Hill (Mo.) South Junior High School library because the book promotes “the stranglehold of humanism on life in America.”
See Also: Materials for Banned Book Week
See Also: “It’s Perfectly Normal†tops ALA’s 2005 list of most challenged books
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