Shocking Banned Books

Both the Merriam Webster and the American Heritage Dictionaries have been banned in various schools. The Merriam Webster was banned in a California elementary school in January 2010 for its definition of oral sex. Districts representatives said it was just not appropriate. 

The Illinois Police Association, along with 11 other states, tried to get libraries to remove this book in 1977 because it portrays policemen as pigs. I suppose we shouldn't have children's books with animals anymore. 

One of my all time favorite children's book, 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?', was banned in January 2010 by the Texas Board of Education because the author has the same name as an obscure Marxist theorist. The only problem with this is that no one checked to see if it was the same person..

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