Read-Out!

To celebrate Banned Books Week, we're holding our first Community Read-Out on Saturday, Oct. 2, from 10 a.m.-noon. Our Read-Out will be focused on children's books that have been challenged by people in other communities. The event will take place in the newly-renovated City Auditorium, and we'll be reading both picture books and passages from children's novels. We're encouraging kids and adults to participate by signing up to read from our list of challenged children's books. (To see a list of some picture books that have been challenged in other places, just click on the extended entry of this post). Or just feel free to come listen and see: we'll use our ELMO projector to show challenged picture books page by page on the big screen. You're welcome to come for part or all of the event. Thanks to the Friends of the Takoma Park Maryland Library for sponsoring this event. Please register by going to Library Program Registration - Takoma Park Maryland Library
or call us at 301-891-7259.

Banned Books – Picture Books

A selected list of picture books that have been challenged over the years – NOT at the Takoma Park Maryland Library, but at other libraries around the nation.

Source: Banned Books: 2007 Resource Guide by Robert P. Doyle

1. Aardvarks, Disembark! by Ann Jonas
2. The Amazing Bone by William Steig
3. And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson
4. Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
5. The Dallas Titans Get Ready for Bed by Karla Kuskin
6. Dinosaurs Divorce by Laurene K. Brown
7. Draw Me a Star by Eric Carle
8. The Five Chinese Brothers by Claire Bishop
9. Froggy Went A-Courtin’ (version illustrated by Kevin O’Malley)
10. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
11. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
12. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
13. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
14. Little Red Riding Hood (Grimm’s Fairy Tales)
15. Mirandy and the Brother Wind by Patricia McKissack
16. Nappy Hair by Carolivia Herron
17. Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
18. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
19. Some Swell Pup by Maurice Sendak
20. Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
21. The Three Billy Goats Gruff
22. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
23. Where’s Waldo by Martin Handford