BANNED BOOKS
Shhhhhhh…………
Don’t tell ANYONE
WHAT IS BANNED OR CHALLENGED
BOOK?
• A banned book is one that is banned. A book that is not
allowed on the shelves of libraries or in a school. This
happens when people lodge a complaint about a book and the
librarians or school board agree that it is inappropriate for
children to read for given reasons
• A challenged book is one that people have unsuccessfully
tried to ban
For challenging
people’s religious
beliefs
For challenging
people’s religious
beliefs and explicit
material
Offensive
language: uses
the “n-word”
Offensive language
AND encourages
children to be
mischievous
Drug use… even
though this book was
written to show how
awful using drugs will
make your life.
“encourages
children to break
dishes to get out
of washing them.”
Contains
inappropriate
language
Profanity, encouraged
disrespect of adults,
death being central to
the plot, encouraged
secular humanism
and/or satanism and
blending of fantasy and
reality.
Insensitivity,
encouraged
disrespect
towards adults
and age
inappropriate.
Questions God
and
inappropriate
content dealing
with the onset
of puberty
Explicit content…
a teeny tiny
woman tanning on
the beach in a
bikini
Inappropriate for age
group, desensitizes
children to murder
and encourages
violence as
entertainment, drug
use.
Encouraged sexual
promiscuity,
euthanasia, belittles
motherhood and family,
violence, inappropriate
themes, and disrespect
of the elderly.
“Too scary…”
“Encourages
violence…”
Teaches the theme of
putting the self before
the common good and
encourages
misbehavior.
“demoralizing, in that it
implies that man is
little more than an
animal”
For speaking against
censorship and book
banning/book burning.
A California school
district banned the
book and claimed that
it “criminalized the
foresting industry” and
would thus persuade
children against
logging.
“Too depressing…”