Banned Books

Bridge To Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson

I have to say that I’m surprised that this book is one of the 100 banned books because I honestly read it and didn’t think there was something to be banned.  I did a quick search for what could be the reason for it to be banned and I found that language used like “damn” or “hell” which I don’t find anything wrong with.  It also states that religion because the book promotes “witchcraft” and violence.  Another thing is that they find it incorrect that a student goes out of town with a student to the museum.  Like I mentioned before I don’t find any of the things to ban the book bad.  Maybe people will not agree with the part of the teacher taking Jesse to town to take him to the museum especially when he had a crush on that teacher but the time of when the book was written were different from now and things were different back then, not saying that I would agree either just saying things were different.

And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell

I had known of this book being banned and thought it was ridiculous.  The reason for being banned is the sexuality of the penguins.  Parents didn’t want to read their kids a book about homosexuality.  But in reality we see this every day, so what is there to be hiding.  Our kids see worst things that out of our control and we can’t ban everything that comes into their sight.  I’m a mother of two girls and know that in school or anywhere they will be exposed to not normal things.  I feel that the ALA or whoever is deciding to which books need to be banned to need to see the world that we are living now and then re-analyze banning books.