Banned Books Week

[dreamer_easy]

I can't work out what I think about Banned Books Week. You think it'd be a no-brainer. Part of the problem is that most of the books the fuss is about have been challenged, not banned. One worried parent's letter to the local library is all it takes to make a challenged book, and the difference between challenged and banned is not always apparent when the media and the blogosphere talk about the issue.

Moreover: if a Sioux mother would rather not have Little House on the Prairie on her daughter's curriculum, I personally don't have a problem with it. There's a world of difference between that and this, or even this.

Comments

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

Knowing a book has a history of being banned or challenged for silly reasons is more likely to get me to buy the book to have in my person library for when I have kids... I would never have heard about And Tango Makes Three is narrow-minded people hadn't kicked up a stink about it.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Yah - a positive outcome of BBW would be if peeps thinking of challenging books learn that it inevitably blows up in their face!