what's your favorite?

looking over the list i have to say a bunch of my favorites are up there, including "Where's Waldo".
But considering, i'd have to say "Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman" for children's and "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

American Psycho. No contest.

It'll have to be a toss-up between "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Brave New World."

gee George...

andy

I'm not sure which is my favourite but I must admit, that Waldo is one crafty motherfucker.

4. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier ( this ruled )
19. Sex by Madonna -( is this still in print? i want one )
27. The Witches by Roald Dahl
42. Beloved by Toni Morrison
43. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton -( lol. there were refs. to this in Degrassi last nite)
60. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
61. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras

Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
*mumbles*harrypotter*mumbles*
The Giver by Lowry
American Psycho by Ellis (or is it Easton Ellis?)
Where's Waldo? by Hanford.

Our copy of "Daddy's Roomate" bit the dust, there was a guy who was protesting books explaining homosexuality in our library system by taking the books into bathrooms and crapping on them, he signed the books "The Mad Shitter". another protest at protesting's finest.
some of the greatest authors are up there, Roald Dahl, Mark Twain, Shel Silverstein, Louis Sachar, S.E. Hinton, Paul Zindel, Steven King, Toni Morrison, John Steinbeck, J.D. Salinger, Judy Blume, Lois Lowry, M. L'Engle, Walter Dean Myers, Maurice Sendak to name a few.
People get pissed off that no one reads much anymore, yet they're the same people who are protesting the greatest books of my childhood, and some of the greatest books ever to be awarded. if you ever get the chance, read the ALA's Freedom to Read Statement, it probably is the main reason i work at a library, the open-mindedness, and the bravado to actually stand up for both majority and minority without making exceptions on either part.

hmm..
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou -amazing stuff
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger -great
The Giver by Lois Lowry -geod i loved this book
Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine -i was soooo addicted
The Color Purple by Alice Walker -beautiful novel, beautiful film
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee -whats not to love
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein -he is so amazing.. i always am flipping through all his olden stuff.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley -better if read before 1984, but good nonetheless.
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume -i loved her and beverly clearys books so much as a child
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut -ah, a literary genius.

why were these discussed again? i didnt read the article, i just picked favorites. yes i am an airhead, yes i am okay with that. i am enlightened.

100 most challenged books from 1990-2000
1,607 were challenges to “sexually explicit” material (up 161 since 1999);
1,427 to material considered to use “offensive language”; (up 165 since 1999)
1,256 to material considered “unsuited to age group”; (up 89 since 1999)
842 to material with an “occult theme or promoting the occult or Satanism,”; (up 69 since 1999)
737 to material considered to be “violent”; (up 107 since 1999)
515 to material with a homosexual theme or “promoting homosexuality,” (up 18 since 1999) and
419 to material “promoting a religious viewpoint.” (up 22 since 1999)
basically, people had issues with them.

you see, people don't want their children to read certain things, and rather than be a parent and check out what their kids are getting into, they try to keep everyone from getting into it so they don't have to parent their children. i had a mother ask for a challenge submission form for a children's book of art work, because it had a picture of the venus de milo in it. apparently this mother feels that the female chest is a "dirty thing" for her child to see. i wonder if she ever breastfed?

Catcher In The Rye.

favorite book, above and beyond any other, since i first read it almost fourteen years ago at age twelve.

I f_______ hate The Colour Purple. I mean, 'Color'

why?

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by trypdwyre [/i]
[B]you see, people don't want their children to read certain things, and rather than be a parent and check out what their kids are getting into, they try to keep everyone from getting into it so they don't have to parent their children[/B][/QUOTE]

Any insight as to why In the Night Kitchen and James and the Giant Peach were challenged?

For the Record: To Kill A Mockingbird is my favorite, followed by Beloved and Catcher in the Rye.

James and the Giant Peach was challenged because:
"Censorship:
Challenged at the Deep Creek Elementary School in Charlotte Harbor, Fla. (1991) because it is "not appropriate reading material for young children."
Challenged at the Pederson Elementary School in Altoona, Wis. (1991) and at the Morton Elementary School library in Brooksville, Fla. (1992) because the book contains the word "ass" and "promotes" the use of drugs (tobacco, snuff) and whiskey.
Removed from classrooms in Stafford County, Va. Schools (1995) and placed in restricted access in the library because the story contains crude language and encourages children to disobey their parents and other adults."
and In the Night Kitchen was because the main character, Mickey, is unclothed during a great part of the book. but hey, it's about the kid's dream, and it's not presented without reason or in a sexual way. i think roald dahl and maurice sendak are 2 of the main people on there that really shouldn't belong. i don't think any of them really truely belong, but especially not sendak and shel silverstein and roald dahl.

Agreed.

Where did you get the reasons? Is it in the original link? I'd love to read all the reasons for the 100.

Night Kitchen and Where the Wild Things are on my bookshelf. Absolute Favorites as a kid.

I bought copies of The Giver to give as part of a book drive at Christmas for "Matt, age 14" And "Lisa age 14". Everyone else was buying books for all the 5-8 year olds:(

the quote on J&TGP i got off of our network at work. the one on the sendak book i got from a conference i went to. just try a google search, everyone publishes everything online you know.

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier I think I remember this one, I'm not sure though.

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson - Same with this one...sounds familiar.

The Witches by Roald Dahl =O why! why! the best.

Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry ? really? I loved this book so much I wanted to change my name to Anastasia.....see, I was 7 though......=X

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes - read this for school and remember the teacher telling us it was somewhat controversial, but she thought we were good enough to get past all that. Probably the best thing a teacher ever did for me was to give us more credit than what normal people do for sixth graders.

A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein ? alrighty.

Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice) only because of the writing.........

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume -- I got this book at least 20 times from the library...saw nothing wrong w/ it

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford -- alrighty.....why?

The Harry Potter books are a blast.

Slaughterhouse Five is amazing, but easily the worst of Vonnegut's novels.

The Catcher in The Rye is brilliant as is American Psycho.

Brave New World is 1984 if it A) had a soul and didn't suck.

who played boo radley in the movie adaptation of tkam?

Are you testing Tuffy or do you really want to know?

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
The Giver by Lois Lowry
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
Blubber by Judy Blume
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Cujo by Stephen King
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Native Son by Richard Wright
Carrie by Stephen King
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

the above books basically constitute my reading list between the ages of 6 and 13. fuck whoever these people are, and fuck everyone who supports censorship in any form. fuck people who can't handle life. fuck people who want so badly to be shielded that they'll take away valuable experiences from other people. fuck people who think kids can be kept blind and magically released at the age of 18 fully prepared for the world. fuck people who don't understand art. fuck people who want to keep sex dirty, taboo and dangerous. fuck people who won't acknowledge viewpoints different from them. fuck people who, had they been around during my childhood, would have kept me ignorant, and fuck people trying to do that to children now. fuck them all. fuck them all.

thank you.

you're welcome.

you asked for it, you got it.
[QUOTE]Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford -- alrighty.....why?[/QUOTE]
Where’s Waldo? was removed from the Springs Public School library in NY because of a small depiction of a topless woman in a beach scene.
[QUOTE]Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume -- I got this book at least 20
times from the library...saw nothing wrong w/ it[/QUOTE]
because of descriptions of a girl’s sexual encounters, getting drunk at school, and the use of profanities.
[QUOTE]A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein ? alrighty[/QUOTE]
in 1996 at Lake County, Florida “because
the book promotes disrespect, horror and violence”
[QUOTE]Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry ? really?[/QUOTE]
Reason Profanity, sexual content, other (Unspecified):Reason Profanity, sexual content
and last
[QUOTE]The Witches by Roald Dahl =O why! why! the best[/QUOTE]
the title of this one says it all, it was banned, for all things, occultism. "Challenged, but retained, at the Battle Creek Elementary School Library (1994) despite protests from a parent who said the book is satanic."

and something i never realized, but Roald Dahl is the g-pa of the model Sophie Dahl [img]http://www.sophie-dahl.com/images/thumbnails/opium.jpg[/img]

*drools*

ring of fire rocks

mmm sohpie dahl...

no, i know the answer. robert duvall played boo. one of his first roles in fact. then the bastard gets all famous and cops the richie rich attitude disx and insom hate about moi and he bails on god father 3. george hamilton was the best you could do, coppola. jesus christ.

censorship happens everyday only we don't know about it. further, there's very little we can do about it. thank YOU.

when did it go from "we control the government" to "there's nothing i can do"? i mean, seriously, the colonies broke away from britian because of a)high taxes and b)because we wanted total control of our government.
shit, now look at us, taxes keep increasing, and we have little control over our own government.
now the whole censorship with books, they cannot tell us we cannot read whatever we want. we can read whatever we want.

actually, we broke away from britain because a small cadre of wealthy landowner and mercantilists felt that they should profit more and pay less taxes to england. in point of fact, the englishman at home in bed actually paid much more in taxes that the colonists. that's what upset king george. also, it's a fact that aside from boston and the immiediate vicinity most colonists were tories. it wasn't after several awful british blunders that popular sentiment became more hostile to king and country.

still, the monarchist digresses.

we do not have control over our government.
we do not have the ability to suppress censorship.
our government will do as it pleases even if it means little upside to the country.

this country is ripe for a revolution.

welcome to middle class poverty. as the rich remain wealthy and powerful, as the middle class slips into oblivion, swelling the poorer classes to bursting, revolution will be the result. the tree of liberty will be watered with the blood of patriots.

do we really think the next government will be any better?

don't forget that america's first government failed - the articles of confederation.

we're a nation of losers and wannabe pundits.

[QUOTE]we're a nation of losers and wannabe pundits.[/QUOTE]
how true how true.
[QUOTE]welcome to middle class poverty. as the rich remain wealthy and powerful, as the middle class slips into oblivion, swelling the poorer classes to bursting, revolution will be the result. the tree of liberty will be watered with the blood of patriots.

do we really think the next government will be any better?

don't forget that america's first government failed - the articles of confederation.[/QUOTE]

and yet we feel comfortable as a nation pushing our type of government onto weaker countries.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by trypdwyre [/i]
[B]and yet we feel comfortable as a nation pushing our type of government onto weaker countries. [/B][/QUOTE]

how true indeed. sad really. that's why the united states as a world power is spiraling into oblivion. the more people know about america and americans the less they want to be americans. not all that long ago, everyone wanted to be an american because, well, i suspect they didn't know any better and times were awfully hard in their home countries. today, with technology, a media decidedly against the us, it's real easy to see what's wrong with our country.

it's shameful, sometimes, to be an american. still, i wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

until someone knocks us of the block, the us reigns supreme. too bad iron chef is a japanese commodity. it's so american.