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Post by The_L on Oct 15, 2011 17:13:53 GMT -5
...references to drugs and alcohol? Is this the same James and the Giant Peach I read as a child? Or is this the new, grittier version by Quentin Tarantino? I'm pretty sure the grasshopper drank brandy. Not that it's instantly going to corrupt children, but still a reference to alcohol. Fantastic Mr Fox is probably worse, since Mr Fox sings about how cider will cheer up his wife. Fantastic Mr. Fox is a bit more deserving, really. You've got a creature who steals farmers' chickens. They catch him in a trap, and he basically spends the rest of the book getting revenge. Also, the book is very unflattering in its portrayal of country folk. A Light in the Attic? I read a lot of Shel Sylverstein's poems back in grade four for English (and because my teacher is a huge fan), but promoting violence in disrespect? Maybe I didn't catch it due to my age, but I'm quite confident the lot of it was quite the opposite. It even had "Warning," which informs children of the horrific consequences of nose-picking. Well, unless you're one of those not-snail-having freaks.
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Post by Khris on Oct 15, 2011 23:16:53 GMT -5
This makes me fear when i finally get the book I'm working on published. It also makes me glad i had a pretty liberal principle when it came to books at our library.
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Post by Vene on Oct 15, 2011 23:27:36 GMT -5
This makes me fear when i finally get the book I'm working on published. It also makes me glad i had a pretty liberal principle when it came to books at our library. You shouldn't be, getting your book banned is something you should aspire to, books make the most money after they're banned.
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Post by Meshakhad on Oct 16, 2011 2:26:39 GMT -5
If, when I have kids, my local school bans any books, I will obtain copies of as many of those books as my kids can carry and send them to school with them.
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Post by priestling on Oct 16, 2011 2:33:13 GMT -5
Mes, as a teacher's kid, I think we'd both be proud of you for that.
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Post by N. De Plume on Oct 17, 2011 18:41:26 GMT -5
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Post by trike on Oct 18, 2011 9:45:17 GMT -5
The dictionary one made me laugh because when my little sister and I were younger my mom used to tell us to "look it up" when she got tired of answering our persistent questions. Once we looked up the definition of "rape" and the definition in the dictionary was so dry that we had a hard time understanding it. I assume it would probably be the same if a third grader looked up "oral sex".
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Post by chad sexington on Oct 18, 2011 23:24:26 GMT -5
Yeah, I looked up 'sodomy' when I was young enough to not know the word, and the definition was, "An unnatural sex act, eg between two males". I thought, 'that's not unnatural', so re-assigned the word to mean bestiality instead.
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Post by Meshakhad on Oct 22, 2011 3:12:22 GMT -5
If anyone in my area even THINKS about banning Anne Frank's diary, their head goes on a spike outside of the local synagogue.
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Post by Khris on Oct 22, 2011 4:10:59 GMT -5
and i will drive all the way from New Orleans and help you. Mostly because i like putting things on spikes babies, stupid people, my friend Eric etc.
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Post by SimSim on Oct 22, 2011 8:17:57 GMT -5
If anyone in my area even THINKS about banning Anne Frank's diary, their head goes on a spike outside of the local synagogue. LOL ITG. I guess mind reading is a power god gave you?
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Post by Shane for Wax on Oct 22, 2011 12:02:41 GMT -5
and i will drive all the way from New Orleans and help you. Mostly because i like putting things on spikes babies, stupid people, my friend Eric etc. Are you Eddie Izzard?
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Post by Jodie on Oct 22, 2011 12:53:54 GMT -5
My parent's purchased the Diary of Anne Frank for me when I was 9. Both had read it and knew exactly what it contained, and very happily shared their love of reading and real life human stories with me anyway. My parents are awesome.
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Post by Khris on Oct 22, 2011 17:17:00 GMT -5
and i will drive all the way from New Orleans and help you. Mostly because i like putting things on spikes babies, stupid people, my friend Eric etc. Are you Eddie Izzard? No but I was waiting for someone to get that reference.
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Post by Aqualung on Oct 25, 2011 9:54:50 GMT -5
The Dictionary? What?!
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