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Forbidden Library
The Forbidden Library: Banned and Challenged Books begins with this CAUTION!
"This site features books some people consider "dangerous." Learn what people find offensive about:
Fahrenheit 451 - expurgated copies used in class...a book on censorship got censored!
James and the Giant Peach - promotes drugs and disobedience!
Where's Waldo - nudity!
1984 - "pro-communist"!
The Lorax - criminalizes the logging industry!
Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings - portrays Buddhism as appealing!
Slaughterhouse Five - foul language, "magic fingers," and mentions an almighty clothing fastener!"
I'd be tempted to warn others of the slow loading time for site pages, probably due to them being redirected to and from a University of Michigan server, where the website owner, Janet Yanosko, probably works. On the Q&A section of the FAQ page, she writes:
Q. I'm doing a report for school...can you give me information on why a specific book/author was censored?In the website, however, she does provide information on the difference between being banned and condemned, and what others generally find offensive in the many books listed by title or by author (but not a searchable database). [books] Listen to this article
A. This is a sticky subject. As a university librarian, my impulse is to teach people how to find the answers, not to provide them freely.
posted by Georganna Hancock M.S. | 9:00 AM
2 Comments:
This was very helpful to me, because I'm frequently asked why A Wrinkle in Time appears on lists of banned and challenged books. So I finally wrote up my answer on my L'Engle FAQ page, and included the Forbidden Library link.
Problem is, my L'Engle pages are all on AOL, and I need to move them to mavarin.com. So now I'm fixing the links on all those pages. So many links, so little time...!
Karen
These lists never cease to amaze me. People never cease to amaze me. Thanks for this very helpful post.
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