Following the recent method of getting books censored in the most uncivilized of manners, the Index of Censorship has organized a week activity that discusses this topic.
Included in the discussion panel are writers that have been termed controversial like members of the Salman Rushdie Campaign Group on The Satanic Verses.
Jodie Ginsberg who is in charge of the campaign group voiced displeasure with the way children’s books are forced off the shelves by the power of a raging angry mob that sees some book not make it past the stage of a manuscript before the writers are forced to withdraw them and stops its publication.
The activity was launched in 1982 to checkmate sudden attempts to have books removed or restricted in schools, bookshops and libraries. More than 11,300 books have been challenged and most have been because of “Sexual content, LGBT characters and mature themes”.
Below is a list of five of the most challenged books in the US in the previous year mostly by American Library Association (ALA):
#1. “This One Summer” by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Julian Tamaki.
Challenged because of it contains LGBT characters, drug use, profanity and sexual content that are mature themes.
#2. “Drama” by Raina Telgemeier.
Challenged because it contains LGBT characters it was deemed sexually explicit and politically offensive.
#3. “George” by Alex Gino.
Challenged because it includes a transgender child and sexuality.
#4. “I am Jazz” by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings, illustrated by Shelagh McNicholas.
Challenged because it includes a transgender child, adult language, sex education and offensive viewpoints.
#5. “Two Boys Kissing” by David Levithan
Challenged because its cover image showed two boys kissing and is considered to include sexual content.
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