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Banned Books Week 2018 is September 23-29. It brings together the entire book community \u2014 librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers\u00a0of all types \u2014 in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.<\/p>\n
The books featured during Banned Books Week have all been targeted with removal or restricted in libraries and schools. By focusing on efforts across the country to remove or restrict access to books, Banned Books Week draws national attention to the harms of censorship.<\/p>\n
For many of us, we can find at least one of our beloved favorites has made the infamous list : For me,\u00a0 it is To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em><\/strong>. To see if any of your<\/strong> favorite books have made the banned or challenged list, visit http:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/bbooks\/frequentlychallengedbooks<\/a> where you can view the lists by year or decade.\u00a0 Here is an example of just one book that was banned for a completely ridiculous<\/strong> reason:<\/p>\n Little Red Riding Hood<\/em><\/strong>, by Brothers Grimm<\/p>\n Why: In the 1987 version, which was adapted from the original fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood was shown carrying a bottle of wine in her basket. But, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we ask you this: What\u2019s honestly the most disturbing thing about Little Red Riding Hood? Is it the fact that there\u2019s a sentient wolf in her grandma\u2019s pajamas? The fact that said wolf probably mauled said grandma to death? Oh, it\u2019s the WINE? Really? Not the fact that the Brothers Grimm were always setting up scenarios where children might get eaten? Ok, as long as you\u2019re sure. Glad everyone has their priorities straight.<\/p>\n To see other books banned for completely ridiculous reasons, visit: https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/blog\/11-books-that-were-banned-for-completely-ridiculous-reasons\/<\/a><\/p>\n Come visit the library this week! Get your mug shot picture taken with one of our banned books on display and you will be entered into one of our prize drawings.\u00a0 Are you brave enough to read a banned book with us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Banned Books Week 2018 is September 23-29. It brings together the entire book community \u2014 librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers\u00a0of all types \u2014 in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular. The books featured during Banned Books Week have all been targeted… Continue reading Banned Book Week September 23-29, 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/ponca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}