Finn! Part Two.

A good blogger knows to rely on her fellows when it comes to certain types of news. Rarely will I comment on recent book bans when bookshelves of doom does so with such veritable aplomb. However, the recent challenge made to remove Huck Finn from a school curriculum has been met with a response from the students themselves so interesting that I just had to link to it. Voila, the Save Huck Finn blog, created by the rather well-spoken students of St. Louis Park Senior High. I like where this is going. Ban a book, face an angry mob of kids. That would certainly make me think twice before trying to control what they read.

Thanks to bookshelves of doom for the link.

Top Ten Banned Books of 2006

Doggone Kids Lit. Why does it have to be so consistently informative? Doesn't Tasha Saecker know that she keeps raising the bar for the rest of us? Some of us would like to slack off and be lazy here, Ms. Saecker, but that's mighty difficult to do when you keep bombarding us with great news items. *sigh*

Anywho, the newest tidbit ripped untimely from Kids Lit's womb (I declare today Shakespeare Thursday) is the list of Top Ten Banned Books of 2006. My husband's professor at Columbia, one Mr. Peter Parnell (eternally cursed to be confused with that other children's author, Peter Parnall) and his lovely little Tango are numero uno on the list. The Alice series is slipping (used to be there was a time you could count on it to be number one every year). And look! Scary Stories is on the list again! Aw, that takes me back. I find it funny that it's never banned because of the pictures. Honestly, guys, when you compare the urban legends inside to those freaky-ass Stephan Gammell illustrations, there's little doubt left in your mind as to why the books are as popular as they are. Whoever let Gammell do picture books as well was a brave brave soul.