Sunday, July 09, 2006

Books that have been banned

...and where they've been banned, and why. Here's an excerpt:

Where's Waldo? Martin Handford. Little. Challenged at the Public Libraries of Saginaw, Mich. (1989), Removed from the Springs Public School library in East Hampton, N.Y. (1993) because there is a tiny drawing of a woman lying on the beach wearing a bikini bottom but no top. Yes, but did they find Waldo?

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm such a nerd that I sent this link on to all the other library nerds.

Jason Doan said...

There's some good stuff on there. I like The Diary of Anne Frank being banned for being "a real downer", stupid people and their sad lives, why couldn't she have had comedic adventures like in Hogan's Heroes, those guys seemed to like WWII just fine.