Banned Books Week 2010

I would guess that not many people know that this week is Banned Book Week. I had the fun job of looking up banned books and creating a window display with the most fascinating books on the list. Here are a few I'm sure you are familiar with...

Huckleberry Finn by Twain
The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Here's another list that you may not have thought of...    

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Anne Frank the Diary of a Young Girl
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

And my top 3 favorite banned books (because of the odd reasons they were banned):

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
"Not easy to figure out why this one was banned, but it may have been that the strongest woman character marries a boring and much older man--counter to feminism."

The Merriam Webster Dictionary!!
"Banned in a California elementary school in January 2010 for its definition of oral sex. "It's just not age appropriate," a district representative said."

And finally,
Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See
"This beloved children's book was banned in January 2010 by the Texas Board of Education because the author has the same name as an obscure Marxist theorist, and no one bothered to check if they were actually the same person."

I hope this list has been as interesting to you as it was to me :)