Children's Program: Banned Books
Saturday, October 4
Start Time: 11:00 AM
This week’s program will feature children’s picture books that have been banned or challenged across the U.S. over the past several years. Children will decorate their own banned books poster to take home. Free and open to children of all ages and their parents.
About the book:
In this little boy's dream-fantasy, he helps three fat bakers get milk for
their cake batter.
It has been banned or challenged because the little boy appears in the
nude on some pages. It is #28 on the American Library Associations list
of "100 most challenged or banned books 2000-2007"
About the book:
Based on the true story of two male penguins at the Central Park
Zoo who built a nest and hatched a chick together.
It was challenged in 2007 at the Lodi, California Public Library by a
resident for what she called its "homosexual story line that has been
sugarcoated with cute penguins."
About the Book:
When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big
Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works.
This book was one of the most frequently challenged or banned picture books
of 1990-2000 because of its "supernatural content."
