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I guess you can't have worldly inspiration without being a little worldly. The school system seems to think that it's an adequate sacrifice. The kids who really want it will go looking for it, I hope.
Also, I like seeing how some children's books are being more challenged than Cujo.... Man alive, that's ridiculous.
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Children's books naturally get challenged more than books for grown-ups. Sex and Cujo wouldn't be in the shelves with the children's books, and they wouldn't be stocked in elementary school libraries at all--and schools are where a lot of the challenges happen. People are far more interested in protecting their children's minds from smut, filth, and scary/sinful ideas (real or perceived) than they are in protecting other adults, especially in public schools.
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One of my friends won't read the HP series because she thinks it's "devil-worship". I'll tell you, if no one else in the world challenged the Harry Potter books but her family, it would still find its way onto the list of challenged books. But she listens to music with profanity in it because it's "expression". Tee-hee. Silliness.
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I actually had a debate with several people a couple years back about the end of The Giver. I thought it was like the end of Hans Christian Anderson's The Matchbook Girl; several other disagreed. We tried to find textual proof, and I eventually convinced at least one person I was right.
But apparently Lowry didn't intend that at all! That makes me very happy, actually -- I thought that book deserved a happy ending.
Speed, thanks for that explanation re James and the Giant Peach. I guess my third-grade teacher (who read the book to us, a few pages a day, as a reward for getting our work done) was just leading us down a terrible path. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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But she listens to music with profanity in it because it's "expression". Tee-hee. Silliness.
