Yes, let me go get my magic broomstick and fly around with it. Harry Potter was banned all over for promoting godless witchcraft. Harriet the Spy was challenged in Ohio for teaching children “to lie, spy, back-talk, and curse.” *Insert eye-roll here* 9. When you read why this book was banned please try not to laugh, okay? The Giving Tree was banned because the tree is overly compliant and the boy is demanding and selfish, so it was deemed as sexist. This book was also removed due to Wilbur, being a pig was seen as potentially offensive to Muslim students. In Kansas, Charlotte’s Web was deemed as inappropriate subject matter for children. But, that wasn’t enough for one Colorado librarian who believed the book “espoused a poor philosophy of life” and said Charlie “had no tremendously positive traits, only an absence of negative ones.” What does that even mean? Roald Dahl was taken aback by this and changed the description of the oompa loompas in a revised version. This book was originally banned due to the fact that the depiction of the oompa loompas was seen as racist. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Roald Dahl with Bill Martin author of Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation. Brown Bear, Brown Bear was banned when The Texas State Board of Education accidentally mixed up its author Bill Martin Jr. This book was banned due to the author’s name. Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? Bill Martin Jr. This book was banned in China for depicting early Marxism. Spain banned Spanish publications? Hmm… 3. For example, in Spain, Spanish publications of the Bible were banned until as late as the nineteenth century. Many countries have also banned it in several languages. The Bible is still banned in North Korea. This book was banned in China’s Hunan Province because it depicted anthropomorphized animals as being as intelligent as humans… Why? Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Lewis Carroll
Here is a list of 10 banned books that were banned for the weirdest and most ridiculous reasons.ġ. But when some books are banned, it frankly makes most of us want to laugh. There are definitely times where banning a certain book leaves you with only one question: why? For example, you can look at a book that came out in the early 1900s and see that maybe society wasn’t quite ready for a sexually explicit novel such as Tropic of Cancer.
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