Single Word Causes Uproar in Children's Book
By Mike McQuillian
On the first page of The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, this year's recipient of the Newbery Medal, Lucky Trimble, a scrappy ten-year-old orphan, hears the word through a hole in the wall. This happens when another character s explaining that a rattlesnake bit his dog on the scrotum.
Some school librarians, after hearing about the word being in The Higher Power of Lucky," have vowed to ban the book from their libraries. This has reopened the debate over what is acceptable for children to read.
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Is there also a problem with Balzac?
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Is there also a problem with Balzac?
"We could have done something important Max. We could have fought child abuse or Republicans!" --Oona Hart (played by Victoria Foyt), in the 1995 movie "Last Summer in the Hamptons."
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The wingnuts ride again. Another book to be celebrated during "Banned Book Month" some years in the future. I'm all for children learning the real names of body parts, thank you. Of course, we could pull all the books that have the word "balls" in them - that would clear entire sections of the library. Why do we need libraries - isn't the bible good enough for them?) Did any of those folks actually read the book, or did they go blind once their eyes fell on the word "scrotum"?
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