Banned books 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 ID: 678359
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Shhhhhhh…………Don’t tell ANYONE
Banned booksSlide2
What is banned or challenged book?
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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
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challenged
book is one that people have unsuccessfully tried to banSlide3
For challenging people’s religious beliefsSlide4
For challenging people’s religious beliefs and explicit materialSlide5
Offensive language: uses the “n-word”Slide6
Offensive language AND encourages children to be mischievousSlide7
Drug use… even though this book was written to show how awful using drugs will make your life.Slide8
“encourages children to break dishes to get out of washing them.”Slide9
Contains inappropriate languageSlide10
Profanity, encouraged disrespect of adults, death being central to the plot, encouraged secular humanism and/or
satanism
and blending of fantasy and reality.Slide11
Insensitivity, encouraged disrespect towards adults and age inappropriate.Slide12
Questions God and inappropriate content dealing with the onset of pubertySlide13
Explicit content… a teeny tiny woman tanning on the beach in a bikiniSlide14
Inappropriate for age group, desensitizes children to murder and
encourages
violence as entertainment, drug use.Slide15
Encouraged sexual promiscuity, euthanasia, belittles motherhood and family, violence, inappropriate themes, and disrespect of the elderly.Slide16
“Too scary…”Slide17
“Encourages violence…”Slide18
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”Slide19
For speaking against censorship and book banning/book burning.Slide20
A California school district banned the book and claimed that it “criminalized the foresting industry” and would thus persuade children against logging.Slide21
“Too depressing…”