Thursday, October 04, 2007

Banned Books

September 29 to October 6 is banned books week.  Google has put together a web site on banned books which is well worth viewing.  Of the 100 best novels of the twentieth century (according to the Radclisffe publishing course (now transplanted to Columbia)) forty-two have been challenged or banned in the United States.  The most challenged/banned book of 2006-2007?:  And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell.  "[A] heartwarming tale. Older readers will most appreciate the...larger theme of tolerance at work in this touching tale." - Publishers Weekly