Not surprisingly, I’m celebrating Banned Books Week at the library. As it happens, most of my favorite books have been banned at one time or another, so of course I want to publicize this week. Because I believe people should read anything they want to read. Sometimes the more “questionable” materials help us in ways we never expected.
Here are bookmarks I made for the library
If you’re a librarian, feel free to use them at your library if you’d like. If you’re a parent, please don’t think Junie B Jones is bad. Please.
I once heard Maurice Sendak comment on the controversy surrounding Wild Things. He said, “I knew it wouldn’t frighten children, because it didn’t frighten me!”
Love that.
I just remembered another reason I heard why “Wild Things” was so controversial. Apparently at that time you couldn’t have a child talk back to his/her mother. Which is strange, because who didn’t show their ass to their mom as a child? I know I did!
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I was banned for all of the same reasons, except for using bad grammar.
Eee these are so cute, love it.