Corbin loves Maurice Sendak books but In The Night Kitchen is his favorite. Like Judy Blume, many of Maurice Sendak's books are challenged, censored, or outright banned. When In the Night Kitchen was published some adults (including librarians) objected to the parts of Mickey's dream where he is in the nude. Some librarians and teachers went so far as to draw diapers onto Mickey. (source: Letters of Note and CBLDF)
Dr. Seuss is a big part of our home library and one of our favorites is The Lorax! It may seem odd that a book encouraging children to be responsible for the environment could be challenged or banned but it happened. Members of the logging industry completely missed the book's message that we should take care and not waste our natural resources and instead believed that The Lorax was vilifying the forest industry. The forest industry even came up with their own version called Truax. (source: Time.com)
Of course we can't forget about Harry Potter! Nora loves her Harry Potter specs and wears them everywhere. When she finally does need glasses I won't be surprised if she picks round frames. As is well known Harry Potter has been a lightening rod for controversy. The most common complaints were from American religious groups who felt the books encouraged witchcraft and paganism, and encouraged children to abandon Christianity. **Excuse me while I roll my eyes.**
(source: Banned Books Awareness)
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