And they are......

   The ALA’s Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2009 reflect a range of themes, and consist of the following titles:

   1. ttyl, ttfn, l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
   Reasons: Nudity, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group, Drugs

   2. “And Tango Makes Threeâ€� by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
   Reasons: Homosexuality

   3. “The Perks of Being A Wallflower,â€� by Stephen Chbosky
   Reasons: Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Anti-Family, Offensive Language, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group, Drugs, Suicide

   4. “To Kill A Mockingbird,â€� by Harper Lee
   Reasons: Racism, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

   5. Twilight (series) by Stephenie Meyer
   Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group

   6. “Catcher in the Rye,â€� by J.D. Salinger
   Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

   7. “My Sister’s Keeper,â€� by Jodi Picoult
   Reasons: Sexism, Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group, Drugs, Suicide, Violence

   8. “The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things,â€� by Carolyn Mackler
   Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

   9. “The Color Purple,â€� Alice Walker
   Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

   10. “The Chocolate War,â€� by Robert Cormier
   Reasons: Nudity, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group


http://www.avclub.com/articles/parents-still-hate-the-catcher-in-the-rye-those-go,40144/

The best way to get a kid to read a book:

Ban it!
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   6. “Catcher in the Rye,â€� by J.D. Salinger
   Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group


11. "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerBalls," by Leopold Butters Stotch. 
Reasons: Nobody has been able to get through the first paragraph without vomiting.

Stan: "Goddamnit there is no deeper meaning in this book!  Read it again!"
Congresswoman: "So you're suggesting that the author just arbitrarily made fun of Sarah Jessica Parker for no reason?"
Kyle: "Yes!"
Congresswoman: "But what would be the point?"
Cartman: "There is no point!  It's just because Sarah Jessica Parker is f*ing ugly!"
Congresswoman: "No writer would take the time to make fun of Sarah Jessica Parker just because they think she's ugly!"
All: "YES THEY WOULD!"

The best selling book in the world has a chapter in which this guy's daughters get him drunk, party with him, and have his babies! 

Sound familiar?
:o

The best selling book in the world has a chapter in which this guy's daughters get him drunk, party with him, and have his babies! 

Sound familiar?
:o


Yup!  Maybe it's time to issue an encyclical  ;)

The best selling book in the world has a chapter in which this guy's daughters get him drunk, party with him, and have his babies! 

Sound familiar?
:o

It's amazing the things you can find when you really look deep into "the cat in the hat"  ???

It's amazing the things you can find when you really look deep into "the cat in the hat"  ???



Well, there is Thing One & Thing Two.



Cat

Well, there is Thing One & Thing Two.



Cat


Lot's daughters were into "Hop on Pop"!
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Well, there is Thing One & Thing Two.


While we're at it, just what is a sneetch, and exactly where on the belly did that star tattoo go?

http://www.childrenstheatrecompany.org/image_store/SNEETCHES.jpg

I mean, isn't that a little low on the belly for PG-rated TV?  And what's with that come-hither look?

While we're at it, just what is a sneetch, and exactly where on the belly did that star tattoo go?

http://www.childrenstheatrecompany.org/image_store/SNEETCHES.jpg

I mean, isn't that a little low on the belly for PG-rated TV?  And what's with that come-hither look?


Tramps with Stamps, that's what I say.  Tramps with stamps.

Dr. Seuss had book controversies too....

The Butter Battle Book

This book was written during the Cold War era, and reflects the concerns of the time, especially the perceived possibility that all life on earth could be destroyed in a nuclear war. It can also be seen as a satirical work, with its depiction of a deadly war based on a senseless conflict over something as trivial as a breakfast food.

The concept of a war based on toast is similar to the war between Lilliput and Blefuscu in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, which was nominally based on the correct end to crack an egg once soft boiled.

Horton Hears A Who

The book (most notably Horton the Elephant's recurring phrase "a person's a person, no matter how small") has found its way to the center of the recurring debate, in the United States, over abortion. Several pro-life groups have adopted the phrase in support of their views.

Geisel himself did not approve of these groups co-opting the phrase, nor does his widow, Audrey Geisel, who "doesn't like people to hijack Dr. Seuss characters or material to front their own points of view."

According to Geisel biographer Philip Nel, Geisel threatened to sue a pro-life group for using his words on their stationery.

The book itself was an allegory for the American post-war occupation of Japan.

Also....

The Lorax

The book is commonly recognized as a fable concerning industrialized society, using the literary element of personification to give life to industry as the Once-ler (whose face is never shown in any of the story's illustrations or in the television special) and to the environment as the Lorax.

It has become a popular metaphor for those concerned about the environment.

The Lorax has sparked notable controversy. In 1988, a small school district in California kept the book on a reading list for second graders, though some in the town claimed the book was unfair to the logging industry.

Several timber industry groups sponsored the creation of a book called The Truax, offering a logging-friendly perspective to an anthropomorphic tree known as the Guardbark. Just as in The Lorax, the book consists of a disagreement between two people.

The logging industry representative states that they have efficiency and re-seeding efforts. The Guardbark, a personification of the environmentalist movement much as the Once-ler is for big business, refuses to listen and lashes out. But in the end, he is convinced on the logger's arguments. (However, this story was also criticized for what were viewed as skewed arguments, particularly a "casual attitude toward endangered species" that answered the Guardbark's concern for them. In addition, the book's approach as a more blatant argument, rather than one worked into a storyline, was also noted.)

The line "I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie" was removed more than fourteen years after the story was published after two research associates from the Ohio Sea Grant Program wrote to Seuss about the clean-up of Lake Erie.

The line remains in the DVD release of the special.

On April 7, 2010, Amnesty International USA commented in their blog on the story of the book that "amazingly parallels that of the Dongria Kondh peoples of Orissa" in India, "where Vedanta Corporation is wrecking the environment of the Dongria Kondh people.

There is the short story, The Sneetches, which was also about racism.

The best selling book in the world has a chapter in which this guy's daughters get him drunk, party with him, and have his babies! 

Sound familiar?
:o

I must have missed that bit of the Da Vinci Code ;)