abecedarian
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Brave New World among top 10 books Americans most want banned | Books | guardian.co.uk
Of course, non-fiction books about penguins are still the most horrible thing one can subject children to, but I note that The Hunger Games has also been challenged for being "sexually explicit". From what I recall, the only sex scene in the entire book takes place in the epilogue, is half a sentence long, and about as explicit as Pride And Prejudice. It's almost as if anything being read by young people is automatically offensive. Fancy that.
We spend tons of money and loads of energy to teach kids to read and then tell them, "Oh you can't read That." Anyways, I thought Little Black Sambo was the most horrible thing one can subject children to; or was that Where the Wild Things Are?
For the record, I never understood why LBS was so offensive; in my copy, the family was Indian, and the kid was very clever in outsmarting those nasty tigers.