American Library Association - Recently banned books
The Learning Tree - Gordon Parks
Then Again, Maybe I Won't - Judy Blume
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts- Edna Barth
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones - Alvin Schwartz
More Scary Stories in the Dark - Alvin Schwartz
Curses, Hexes, and Spells - Daniel Cohen
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
How to Eat Fried Worms - Thomas Rockwell
Blubber - Judy Blume
The Witches of Worm - Zilpha Snyder
My Brother Sam Is Dead - James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
The Great Gilly Hopkins - Katherine Paterson
The Figure in the Shadows - John Bellairs
On My Honor - Marion Dane Bauer
Grendel - John Champlin Gardner
I Have to Go - Robert Munsch
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
The Pigman - Paul Zindel
Revolting Rhymes - Roald Dahl
Halloween ABC - Eve Merriam
Harry Potter series - J.K.Rowling,
Impressions Edited by Jack Booth
Alice series- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Fallen Angels - Walter Dean Myers
Blood and Chocolate - Annette Curtis Klause
The Drowning of Stephan Jones-Bette Green
Summer of My German Soldier- Bette Greene
Ordinary People-Judith Guest
The Autobiography of Malcolm X-Alex Haley and Malcolm X
Catch-22-Joseph Heller
Best Short Stories by Negro Writers-Langston Hughes, ed.
Brave New World-Aldous Huxley
Ulysses-James Joyce
The Phantom Tollbooth-Norton Juster
A Day No Pigs Would Die - Robert Peck
Heather Has Two Mommies -Leslea Newman
Christine - Stephen King
Fallen Angels - Walter Myers
The New Teenage Body Book - Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
Little Red Riding Hood - Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The Headless Cupid - Zilpha Snyder
Night Chills - Dean Koontz
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
James and the Giant Peach- Roald Dahl
Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
Scary Stories in the Dark - Alvin Schwartz
Cujo;The Shining-Stephen King
A Separate Peace-John Knowles
Lady Chatterley's Lover-D.H. Lawrence
To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
Tropic of Cancer-Henry Miller
The Bluest Eye; Song of Solomon-Toni Morrison
Leslea Newman - Heather Has Two Mommies
Desire Under the Elms; Strange Interlude-Eugene O'Neill
1984-George Orwell
Bridge to Terabithia-Katherine Paterson
The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath
The Story of O-Pauline R‚age
Always RunningLuis- Rodriguez
The Satanic Verses-Salman Rushdie
The Catcher in the Rye-J.D. Salinger
Last Exit to Brooklyn-Hubert Selby, Jr.
In the Night Kitchen-Maurice Sendak
The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet-William Shakespeare
A Thousand Acres-Jane Smiley
The Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice and Men; The Red Pony-John Steinbeck
Huckleberry Finn-Mark Twain
Slaughterhouse-Five-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Color Purple; In Love and Trouble-Alice Walker
Leaves of Grass- Walt Whitman
Daddy's Roommate-Michael Willhoite
Memoirs of Hecate County-Edmund Wilson
Native Son; Black Boy - Richard Wright
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
The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
The Goats by Brock Cole
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
Blubber by Judy Blume
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
Final Exit by Derek Humphry
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
What’s Happening to my Body? by Lynda Madaras
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
Deenie by Judy Blume
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
Cujo by Stephen King
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
Fade by Robert Cormier
Guess What? by Mem Fox
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Native Son by Richard Wright
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday
Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Jack by A.M. Homes
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
Carrie by Stephen King
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
Family Secrets by Norma Klein
Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
Private Parts by Howard Stern
Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
Sex Education by Jenny Davis
The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Bastard Out of Carolina-Dorothy Allison
American Heritage Dictionary
The Anarchist Cookbook
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings-Maya Angelou
Go Ask Alice-Anonymous
If Beale Street Could Talk-James Baldwin --
The Wizard of Oz-Frank L. Baum --
Deenie; Forever; Tiger Eyes;Blubber;Wifey.-Judy Blume --
Boston Women's Health Book Collective - Our Bodies, Ourselves
Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury -
Tarzan-Edgar Rice Burroughs
Naked Lunch- William Burroughs
The Chocolate War-Robert Cormier
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Witches-Roald Dahl
On the Origin of Species-Charles Darwin
Invisible Man-Ralph Ellison
As I Lay Dying; Mosquitos-William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary-Gustave Flaubert
Maurice-E.M. Forster
The Diary of a Young Girl-Anne Frank
One Hundred Years of Solitude-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Annie on My Mind-Nancy Garden
My House-Nikki Giovanni
Lord of the Flies-William Golding
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Well, I don't know, I have been reading to my children for years, and am
still to the youngest, and there are plenty of books with witches and
pumpkins and ghosts and heroines and heroes to choose among. I haven't read
The Language Police but it sounds, just from the title, as if it has a
particular political agenda. There is a certain vein of conservatism here
that likes to argue that we are being ridiculously deprived of our freedoms,
i.e., witches, pumpkins, heroines, by the politically correct and
influential liberal New York faction in publishing and in politics. But in
actuality, as Alison pointed out, the most popular books (and movies) have
been the Harry Potter series. Sometime ago, here in New Mexico, there was a
public burning of the Harry Potter books, organized by a local church. A
great heap of them went up in smoke. But then that's the same sentiment that
led to the book burning of Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me Ultima a couple of
decades ago. For the faction that is most often annoyed by witches and
pumpkins and heroines (as opposed to heroes) is often very religiously and
politically conservative. So I am a bit skeptical about Language Police. I
remember Edward Hirsch once talking about Ezra Pound as the first
representative of the Poetry Police (No nouns being chaperoned by
adjectives, etc.) but that was all in fun,
Best,
Rebecca
Rebecca Seiferle
www.thedrunkenboat.com
-------Original Message-------
From: cooee <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 05/18/03 04:38 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: gollywogs
>
> on 18/5/03 1:41 AM, Patrick McManus at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> perhaps from gollywog
- or his dictionary did.
A toddler visiting my house last week was carrying round a smart new copy
of
Little Black Sambo, by Helen Bannerman (1899 & countless reprints)
which I still fondly remember from the pre p-c days when I had a toddler
to
read to. I expected it to have vanished...
The Language Police, by Diane Ravitch, previewed by Salon.com 16 May, says
in the US nowadays books for the young have 'no "heroines,' owls,
birthdays
or pumpkins - they might offend somebody'...
Max Richards at Cooee, Melbourne
>
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