We are thrilled to announce that our Library has just been chosen as one of seven groups to receive the first-ever Judith Krug Memorial Fund grants from the American Library Association's Freedom to Read Foundation. Our Library was awarded $1,000 to help fund our Community Read-Out on Saturday, Oct. 2, from 10 a.m. to noon in the Takoma Park City Auditorium.
Our Read-Out is focused on children's books -- picture books and novels for kids through age 12 -- that have been challenged in other parts of the country (NOT in Takoma Park!). With the grant, we will be able to give all participants free copies of some of these challenged children's books, as well as offer everyone a pizza lunch when the program concludes.
At the program, we will read passages from some of the challenged children's novels on our list, and also read entire challenged picture books together using our ELMO document camera, projector and big screen. Although our program is focused on children's books, this is an event for children of all ages, and we welcome adults who want to come and read from one of the books on our list, or just want to come and listen. We also welcome kids and/or adults who would like to perform a scene from one of the challenged books on our list. But you're also welcome to just come and listen!
We do ask folks to register, so we can have enough giveaway books and pizza! To register, go to Library Program Registration - Takoma Park Maryland Library.If you are interested in doing a reading, please contact Karen MacPherson, children's librarian, at 301-891-7259. We ask participants to read from the picture books or children's novels on our list so that we can keep the program focused on books for kids under age 12. To see the lists of challenged picture books and children's novels, and to choose one, read on!
Challenged Children’s Picture Books: A Selected List (NOTE: This replaces the previous list published in an earlier blog)
Selected by Karen MacPherson, children’s librarian at the Takoma Park Maryland Library
Source: Banned Books by Robert P. Doyle (ALA, 2007), plus annual updates to the book issued by the ALA in 2008, 2009, 2010.
At the bottom of this list you can find a form for choosing a book. Thanks to everyone who signed up to read, we now have about 20 readers. Everyone else - please come. Make a sign, carry a sign, celebrate our freedom to read, help us eat up the pizza.
__ Claire Bishop: The Five Chinese Brothers.
__ Eric Carle: Draw Me a Star.
__ Martin Handford: Where’s Waldo?.
__ Carolivia Herron: Nappy Hair.
__ Ann Jonas: Aardvarks, Disembark.
__ Stephen Kellogg: Pinkerton, Behave!.
__ William Kotzwinkle: Walter the Farting Dog.
__ Karla Kuskin: The Dallas Titans Get Ready For Bed.
__ Patricia McKissack: Mirandy and the Brother Wind.
__ Leslea Newman: Heather Has Two Mommies.
__ Helen Oxenbury: Tiny Tim.
__ Justin Richardson: And Tango Makes Three.
__ Faith Ringgold: Tar Beach.
__ Maurice Sendak: In the Night Kitchen and Some Swell Pup.
__ William Steig: The Amazing Bone; Caleb and Kate; and Sylvester and the Magic Pebble.
__ Dr. Seuss: The Lorax.
__ Traditional: Froggy Went A-Courtin’ (specifically the edition illustrated by Kevin O’Malley).
__ Traditional: The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
__ Michael Willhoite: Daddy’s Roommate.
__ Garth Williams: The Rabbit’s Wedding.
__ Audrey Wood: Elbert’s Bad Word.
Challenged Children’s Novels: A Selected List
Selected by Karen MacPherson, children’s librarian at the Takoma Park Maryland Library
Source: Banned Books by Robert P. Doyle (ALA, 2007), plus annual updates to the book issued by the ALA in 2008, 2009, 2010.
Note: Books selected are geared to children through grade 5. Many of the authors have other books for older readers that also have been challenged.
__ Lloyd Alexander: The Chronicles of Prydain
__ Judy Blume: Superfudge; Here’s to You, Rachel Robinson; The One in the Middle is a Green Kangaroo; Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great; and Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself.
__ Lewis Carroll: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
__ Bruce Coville: Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher.
__ Christopher Paul Curtis: The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963
__ Roald Dahl: The BFG; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; The Enormous Crocodile; George’s Marvelous Medicine; James and the Giant Peach; Matilda; The Minipins; Revolting Rhymes; Rhyme Stew; and The Witches.
__ John Fitzgerald: The Great Brain.
__ Louise Fitzhugh: Harriet the Spy; The Long Secret; Sport.
__ Jean Craighead George: Julie of the Wolves.
__ Brothers Grimm: The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Also, specific Grimm stories have been challenged: Hansel & Gretel; Little Red Riding Hood (specifically the version illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; and Snow White.
__ Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth.
__ Rudyard Kipling: Just So Stories.
__ Madeleine L’Engle: Many Waters and A Wrinkle In Time.
__ C.S. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe.
__ Lois Lowry: Anastasia Krupnik; Anastasia Again!; and Anastasia At Your Service.
__ Mary O’Hara: My Friend Flicka.
__ Barbara Park: Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky, Peeky Spying and Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus.
__ Katherine Paterson: Bridge to Terebithia and The Great Gilly Hopkins.
__ Susan Patron: The Higher Power of Lucky .
__ Dav Pilkey: The Adventures of Captain Underpants; Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space; Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Pooypants; and The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby.
__ J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
__ Louis Sachar: Marvin Redpost: Is He a Girl?; Sideways Stories from Wayside School; Wayside School is Falling Down; There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom.
__ Alvin Schwartz: Scary Stories and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
__ Shel Silverstein: The Giving Tree; A Light in the Attic; Where the Sidewalk Ends.
__ Zilpha Snyder: The Egypt Game and The Headless Cupid.
__ Elizabeth George Speare: The Sign of the Beaver; The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
__ William Steig: Abel’s Island.
__ R.L. Stine: The Goosebumps series.
__ Mildred Taylor: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
_ Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House in the Big Woods and Little House on the Prairie.
__ Elizabeth Winthrop: The Castle in the Attic.
__ Elizabeth Yates: Amos Fortune, Free Man