Banned Books

Here’re a couple online resources on banned books. The exclusion of some of these from schools is somewhat horrifying (To Kill a Mockingbird?!?)!I did my particular segment on 1980’s court cases, the main resource of which was ALA’s First Amendment Court Case.    Other banned books sources are as follows:

http://ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_books

http://books.google.com/googlebooks/banned/

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html

Banned books are really interesting to think about, it’s very informative to see what kinds of people want books removed form the library and their reasons. Why can’t they just forbid their own child and not make the rest of the school district go without a piece of literature with uncomfortable things?