The American Library Association’s Banned Books Week celebrates the Freedom to Read. Observed during the last week of September each year since 1982, the annual event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted.
At the ALA Banned Books Week web page where you can order buttons, posters, bookmarks, and T-shirts to let everyone know where you stand on censorship.
Below the fold is their list of the 25 most challenged books. It’s been a great day of bad news for the corrupt GOP leadership. Why not read a banned book to celebrate 🙂
crossposted at My Left Wing
Tip of the hat to Red State Rabble for reminding me of this.
Here’s the ALA’s list of the 25 most often challenged books (you can read the whole 100 on the ALA Banned Books website):
Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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
Forever by Judy Blume
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
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
It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Sex by Madonna
Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
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
Happy reading MLWers. Proud to be fighting alongside you.
of the 25?
Some of the list I don’t know but….we buy banned books every year off the list.
Powell’s here I come!
“I read therefore I am dangerous – repeal the Patriot Act” from the front of my favorite sweatshirt.
Have 4 extra points…..
I loved banned books week. It makes me pround of my fellow librarians!
Librarians are a great bunch! They’ve stood up and come through for the people time and again-thanks for the diary and the timely reminder.
Between my daughter who is a librarian and myself we have most of these books.
My daughter hated reading when she was a child. I use to read to her all the time and she loved that but didn’t like doing the work herself. I sat her down and told her why I loved reading- to be able to experience so many things from the comfort of my chair,bed,tree etc., And I must have sparked some curiosity (finally) because she got her MED and MLS and reads constantly and tells me about new books and Must Reads now.
Long live the power of books!