Woohoo! One of the best weeks of the entire year in my opinion...in the book world anyway...BANNED BOOK WEEK! It's a great week because we celebrate some of the most amazing literary works of all time who have, at some point in their book lives, offended someone somewhere, proving that even the most amazing of art always offends someone.
Star Line has a great display table this week with some of my favorite books, and my coworker and I quite enjoyed looking up why some of these beloved books were banned in the first place. Note: Banned Books Week also displays the stupidity of some folks. Here are some of my favorite reasons books have been banned --
Brown Bear Brown Bear by Eric Carle: Mistaken for a communist writer
Atonement by Ian McEwan: bad grammar
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson: Witchcraft and lack of parental supervision
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Depressing and sexual content
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee: Vulgar language and conflicting values
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak: Psychologically traumatizing
And of course, my personal favorite Harry Potter for it's witchcraft and wizardry nonsense. Aka FUN
Some of my favorite books, apart from Harry Potter, are on the Banned Books list: Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, Stephen Chbosky's Perks of Being a Wallflower, Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor and Park, Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, Lois Lowry's The Giver. I'm starting to think that being on the Banned Books List is actually THE list to be on. I'd be honored to be found among names like these, writers who challenge the world around them, who DARE to have an imagination.
So what Banned Book are you reading this week?
Happy Illicit Reading,
HER
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