Treasure Your Freedom to Read

1. Treasure Your Freedom to Read Banned Books Week: an opportunity to educate students about one of our most precious freedoms in a democracy and the role of libraries Open a book, open your mind @ your library

2. Banned Books Week • ALA poster Open a book, open your mind @ your library

3. First a bit about our Constitutional Rights to Intellectual Freedom • poster Open a book, open your mind @ your library

4. Intellectual freedom The ability to express and explore diverse opinion Open a book, open your mind @ your library

5. Intellectual freedom • Right to seek information Open a book, open your mind @ your library

6. Intellectual freedom • Right to choice information from all points of view Open a book, open your mind @ your library

7. Banned Book Week • Reminds Americans not to take this precious Right of Intellectual Freedom for granted. Open a book, open your mind @ your library

8. Why? • Freedom of speech and press require an understanding that others have different opinions and ideas. Open a book, open your mind @ your library

9. Freedom of Speech denied • However throughout world history, those with different ideas have been sought out and silenced. Open a book, open your mind @ your library

10. Book Burning • Books and libraries have been burned as a method of controlling thought and knowledge throughout world history. Open a book, open your mind @ your library

11. 1933 Nazi bonfires • Thousands of books smolder in a huge bonfire as Germans give the Nazi salute during the wave of book-burnings that spread throughout Germany. http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bookburning/20thcentury/nazigermany/nazigermany.htm Open a book, open your mind @ your library

12. Fahrenheit 451 • by Ray BradburySet in the future when all books are banned, people called “firemen”burn confiscated books. Perhaps the most ironic banned book situation, this book was banned as "dangerous."[451 degrees is the temperature that paper catches fire.] http://library.dixie.edu/new/whybanned.html Open a book, open your mind @ your library

13. But as the author of Fahrenheit 451, • Ray Bradbury, said, "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." Open a book, open your mind @ your library

14. The Story of Ferdinandby Munro Leaf • It is the story of a bull who would rather smell flowers than fight in bullfights. Banned in Spain [was seen by many supporters of Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War as a pacifist book] and burned as propaganda in Nazi Germany, the book had over 60 foreign translations and has never gone out of print. The story was adapted into a Walt Disney film which won a 1938 Academy Award. Open a book, open your mind @ your library

15. Censorship • The act of getting rid of information that others consider not acceptable. • Books are censored when they are banned or altered. Open a book, open your mind @ your library

16. What is meant by banned? • A book, that has been banned, has been removed from the shelf. All readers are denied access to the material. Open a book, open your mind @ your library

17. Captain Underpants • By Pilkey, Dav challenged for encouraging childrento disobey grownups. Open a book, open your mind @ your library

18. What is meant by altered? • “Objectionable words are erased • whiting or blacking out words • concealing or changing illustrations Open a book, open your mind @ your library

19. Baseball Saved Us • by Ken MochizuchiChallengedbecause of a racial slur used in the book.http://www.pacificcitizen.org/content/2006/national/jun16-lin-baseball.htm Open a book, open your mind @ your library

20. Why are books challenged? • Sometimes books are challengedbecause they have offended someone. Open a book, open your mind @ your library

21. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble • by William Steig In 1977, the Illinois Police Association urged librarians to remove the book, which portrays its characters as animals, and presents the police as pigs.The American Library Association reported similar complaints in 11 other states. Open a book, open your mind @ your library

22. Why are books challenged? • Books are usually challengedby people with good intentions-to protect others, usually children, from difficult ideas and truths. Open a book, open your mind @ your library

23. In a Dark, Dark Room, and Other Scary Stories • by Alvin Schwartz Reason banned: Too morbid for children. “The Green Ribbon”http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/4602/Books/1st+Amendment+Versus+Parenting+Banned+Childrens+Books.aspx#ixzz1ZizFhfby Open a book, open your mind @ your library

24. Who has the right to restrict? • “Parents-and only parents-have the right and the responsibility to restrict the access of their children-and only their children-to library resources” Free Access to Libraries for Minors, an interpretation of the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights Open a book, open your mind @ your library

25. Bony-Legs by Joanna Cole • Reason banned: Deals with subjects such as magic and witchcraft.http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/4602/Books/1st+Amendment+Versus+Parenting+Banned+Childrens+Books.aspx#ixzz1ZiyWLbtl Open a book, open your mind @ your library

26. Challenged Books • Although they were the targets of attempted bannings, most of the books featured during BBW were not banned, thanks to the efforts of librarians to maintain them in their collections. Open a book, open your mind @ your library

27. We still have the freedom to read… Open a book, open your mind @ your library

28. A Light in the Attic • By Shel Silversteinchallenged by an elementary school in Beloit, Wisconsin, in 1985 because the poem “How Not to Dry the Dishes” “encourages children to break dishes” in order to get out of having to dry them. Open a book, open your mind @ your library

29. The Stupids (series) • By Harry Allard, authorof Miss Nelson Is Missing!Challenged because “it might encourage children to disobey their parents." Open a book, open your mind @ your library

30. “The Elephant’s Child,” one of the Just So Stories By Rudyard Kipling • Challenged in the Davenport, Iowa community school district in 1993 because the book is "99% violent." Throughout the book, when the main character, an elephant child, asks a question, he receives a spanking instead of answers. • http://www.navapanga.com/2010/10/30/crocodile-caught-hold-of-baby-elephants-trunk-in-african-waterhole/ Open a book, open your mind @ your library

31. Bumps in the Night • by Allard, Harry Dudley Stork and his friends search for the cause the spooky noises in his house. Challenged for references to the super-natural. Open a book, open your mind @ your library

32. Where the Wild Things Are • Maurice Sendak's classic Where the Wild Things Arehas been challenged for involving "witchcraft/supernatural elements." "witchcraft/supernatural elements." Open a book, open your mind @ your library

33. TarBeach • by Faith Ringgold Challenged for “stereotyping African-Americans as eating fried chicken and watermelon and drinking beer at a family picnic.”This same book won the 1992 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for its portrayal of minorities. Open a book, open your mind @ your library

34. Mirandy and Brother Windby Patricia McKissack • Challenged at the Glen Springs Elementary School in Gainesville, Fla. (1991) because of the book's use of black dialect. Open a book, open your mind @ your library

35. The Five Chinese BrothersbyBishop, Claire Huchet, and Kurt Wiese, 1938. • Challenged at Colton, CA, elementary schools (1998) and Spokane, WA, school district (1994) • According to critics, The Five Chinese Brothers includes "racial stereotypes demeaning to Chinese people" and "violent plots to execute five brothers.“ Open a book, open your mind @ your library

36. Little Red Riding Hood • You wouldn’t think there would be anything wrong with this retelling, based on the lovely cover illustration, would you? But eagle-eyed readers, not just tipsy types, will have spotted the bottle in Red’s basket, and that meant trouble someyears ago in Culver City, CA. You see, Red’s mother had packed the basket with “a loaf of bread, some sweet butter, and a bottle of wine”. St. Petersburg Times- St. Petersburg, Fla. May 1990. Open a book, open your mind @ your library

37. and the series most loved… Open a book, open your mind @ your library

38. and despised…America’s Favorite Kindergartener In 2004 Barbara Parkwas selected as one ofthe American Library Association’s10 Most Frequently Challenged Authors Open a book, open your mind @ your library

39. Junie B. Jones(series) by Barbara Park • The spunky kindergartener (first grader in more recent volumes) is prone to troublemaking, often calls people names and isn’t averse to talking back to her teachers. And though she is the narrator of the stories, she struggles with grammar: words like funnest and beautifuller are the mainstays of her vocabulary • http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/26/fashion/26junie.html?pagewanted=all Open a book, open your mind @ your library

40. So… I invite you to read a banned book. Open a book, open your mind @ your library

41. Sylvester and the Magic PebbleBy William Steig • Remember this slide? • One website in 2006 mistaken this banned book for… Open a book, open your mind @ your library

42. Shrek! • by William Steighttp://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/censored/child.html • Error • Always check your sources. Open a book, open your mind @ your library

43. Veteran School Librarian Pat Scales • suggests that banned books have important lessons to teach youth. Open a book, open your mind @ your library

44. These books can help to: • Spark open and honest discussion • Understand and debate real-life issues • Learn to function in a changing society • Nurture intellectual growth • Encourage creative and critical thinking • Recognize and accept cultural differences • Value literature of all genres Open a book, open your mind @ your library

45. ALA President Michael Gorman states, “I believe the more we exerciseour freedom to read and read widely, the better equipped we are to make good decisions and govern ourselves,” He said, “Controversial ideas should be debated, not driven into dark alleys.” Open a book, open your mind @ your library