Banned books we love- When it comes to books, people have taken offense at titles many of us wouldn't think twice about. Shel Silverstein's "A Light in the Attic" was banned in the 1990s for having "suggestive illustrations" and, as far as one library was concerned, because it "glorified Satan, suicide and cannibalism, and also encouraged children to be disobedient." (Say it with us: "I cannot go to school today/said little Peggy Ann McKay…") Mark Twain's masterpiece, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," has caused so much controversy that a sanitized version was recently released-126 years after the original was published.
It's assumed that if a book is on the American Library Association's banned list, that means that it won't be found in school or loc
Are any of your favorite books on the banned lists?