Chris's comments (member since Jul 09, 2009)

Chris's comments from the Banned Books group.

Funky Winkerbean is a daily comic strip that appears in newspapers. The current storyline is about parents who are upset that their children will be performing a play that deals with cancer. The title of the play is Wit.

There's 120 Banned Books Censorship Histories Of World Literature, but I'm not sure if that is the book you mean James.

Kelly wrote: "That site is a fabulous find! It has excerpts and discusses the reasons why books are challenged. It's hilarious that some of these are kids books and they have it as an adult-content site. Too fun..."

I was allowed to read anything I wanted too. It was so fun. Still is. The List of List (on pabbis) is a rather complete list of banned books. I also use http://www.factsonfiction.org/index.aspx when I teach as well.

Hi,

I just joined. I joined for two reason. I don't like book banning. I feel that if you don't like, then you don't have to read it. You can tell me why you don't like it, but don't tell me not to read it. You can protest it, but let people make up their own minds without the fear of threats.

The second reason is that I teach composition at two community colleges and I usually assign an essay about censorship. I focus mostly on books because I like to read. It's fun watching students go "huh?" when telling them a book they liked has been banned.

If anyone wants a good list of banned/challenged books (for the U.S), you should try www.pabbis.com. It's run by a group that wants to pull books, but they have a rather complete list. They also have some interesting links, including one to a website that tries to get students to read books Pabbis wanted pulled. My students laugh when I show them that one.