Newbery-Award winning book banned across nation

[narc]

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/books/18newb.html?ref=books">&quot;The book&rsquo;s heroine, a scrappy 10-year-old orphan named Lucky Trimble, hears the word through a hole in a wall when another character says he saw a rattlesnake bite his dog, Roy, on the scrotum.&quot;</a></p><p>Sounds like the cat's (or should I say Snake) is certainly out of the <strong>bag</strong> on this one. </p>

[Tall_James]

There was a similar hue and cry after the publication of &quot;Make Way For Ducklings&quot; due to the graphic duck-fucking passages.

[reeshy]

I'm shocked....who knew dogs had scrotums!!!!!!

[burrben]

i took a class in children's lit. last quarter. i'm just sayin'

[boeman]

<strong>burrben</strong> wrote:<br />i took a class in children's lit. last quarter. i'm just sayin' <p>sayin' what? That you like kids? </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>you pervert.</p>

[cupcakelove]

<p><img src="http://wolfstone.halloweenhost.com/Hatred/brnhry_fire.jpg" border="0" width="320" height="240" /></p><p>I'm scared of people that are scared of books.&nbsp;</p>

[ShelleBink]

<strong>Tall_James</strong> wrote:<br />There was a similar hue and cry after the publication of &quot;Make Way For Ducklings&quot; due to the graphic duck-fucking passages.<p>&nbsp;<img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/lol.gif" border="0" /> </p>

[docgoblin]

<strong>reeshy</strong> wrote:<br />I'm shocked....who knew dogs had scrotums!!!!!!<p>&nbsp;My dog used to have one... He's never forgiven me. </p>

[johnniewalker]

I kinda wonder how i would have grown up reading about more adult topics when i was younger.&nbsp; I think i was reading Ramona Quimby and Judy Blume novels.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I was kinda of a perv reading about a 4 year old girl when i was 8.&nbsp;

[BoondockSaint]

<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to start an issue about censorship,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;But you won&rsquo;t find men&rsquo;s genitalia in quality literature.&rdquo;</p><p>1) Yes you will.</p><p>2) It wasn't a man, it was a dog and any kid with a dog has seen one or it's penis.</p><p>3) I bet my mother would have loved me saying scrotum instead of&nbsp;ballsack when I was 10.</p>

[narc]

<strong>johnniewalker</strong> wrote:<br />I kinda wonder how i would have grown up reading about more adult topics when i was younger.&nbsp; I think i was reading Ramona Quimby and Judy Blume novels.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I was kinda of a perv reading about a 4 year old girl when i was 8.&nbsp; <p>I remember when I read &quot;Are you there God? It's me, Margaret&quot; around that time, I thinking it was the funniest book ever. </p>

[BoondockSaint]

I just remembered that when I was in 5th or 6th grade that one of my friends had to have surgery because his balls were knotted up.&nbsp; I hope to God that they didn't tell him that he had a scrotum.

[epo]

<strong>reeshy</strong> wrote:<br />I'm shocked....who knew dogs had scrotums!!!!!! <p>East Side Dave.</p><p>Sorry, the devil made me say it.</p>

[bobrobot]

<p><strong><font color="#000080">Why go to Afghanistan when we have our very own Taliban to fight right here??? I'd like to bite every fucking 1 of them right on the scrotum!!!</font></strong></p><p align="center"><img src="http://www.otherlandtoys.co.uk/images/teeth3.gif" border="0" width="200" height="158" /></p>

[Yerdaddy]

<h3><em>The New York Times,</em> November 2, 1935</h3><p><strong>New Mark Twain Letters Reveal He Poked Fun at Huck Finn Ban<br />Humorist Vigorously Defended His Boy Heroes When Huckleberry and Tom Sawyer Were Criticized at Brooklyn Library as No More 'Course' Than Unexpurgated Bible.</strong></p><p>Two hitherto unpublished letters by Mark Twain which echo a national controversy waged thirty years ago over Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were made public yesterday for the first time by Asa Don Dickinson, head librarian at Brooklyn College. Twain's letters were sent to Professor Dickinson in response to the librarian's appeal for the author to defend his two beloved characters from the onslaughts of an official of Brooklyn Public Library, who charged that the two characters were &quot;bad examples for ingenuous youth.&quot;</p><p>The controversy began in 1905 when a young woman, superintendent of children's department, insisted that Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer be removed from the children's room because of their &quot;coarseness, deceitfulness and mischievous practices.&quot;</p><p>Professor Dickinson strongly disagreed and sent a letter to Twain acquainting him of the librarian's action.</p><p><strong>Mark Twain's Defense.</strong></p><p>The creator of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn immediately sent back this reply:</p><p>21 5th Avenue<br />Nov. 21, '05.</p><p>Dear Sir:</p><p>I am greatly troubled by what you say. I wrote Tom Sawyer &amp; Huck Finn for adults exclusively, &amp; it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, &amp; to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave. Ask that young lady - she will tell you so.</p><p>Most honestly do I wish I could say a softening word or two in defence of Huck's character, since you wish it, but really in my opinion it is no better than God's (in the Ahab &amp; 97 others), &amp; the rest of the sacred brotherhood.</p><p>If there is an Unexpurgated [Bible] in the Children's Department, won't you please help that young woman remove Tom &amp; Huck from that questionable companionship?</p><p>Sincerely yours,<br />S. L. Clemens</p>

[A.J.]

&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to start an issue about censorship,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;But you won&rsquo;t find men&rsquo;s genitalia in quality literature.&rdquo; <p>Or art.</p><p><img src="http://propro.ru/go/Album/it/images/david.jpg" border="0" width="420" height="768" /></p>

[Dougie Brootal]

<strong>A.J.</strong> wrote:<br />&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to start an issue about censorship,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;But you won&rsquo;t find men&rsquo;s genitalia in quality literature.&rdquo; <p>Or art.</p><p><img src="http://propro.ru/go/Album/it/images/david.jpg" border="0" width="420" height="768" /></p><p>or porn. wait, i dont think i get this.</p>

[ChimneyFish]

<strong><em><font face="georgia,palatino" size="2">It's getting to be daily, that I'm reminded why the human race deserves to be eradicated.</font></em></strong>

[suggums]

<p>this is one of those rare cases where the big corporations (bookstores, publishers) are doing the good thing by going ahead with the creation and selling of a controversial product, and the consumers are being the big babies.&nbsp; if you dont know what a dick or vag is by age 8-9 you're being overly sheltered. </p><p>mojo, make sure they use book this for the children's storytime this saturday morning.&nbsp;</p>

[bobrobot]

<strong>A.J.</strong> wrote:<br />&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to start an issue about censorship,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;But you won&rsquo;t find men&rsquo;s genitalia in quality literature.&rdquo; <p>Or art.</p><p><img src="http://propro.ru/go/Album/it/images/david.jpg" border="0" width="420" height="768" /></p><p><strong><font color="#000080">Y'know David is behind a partition now so the squeamish can't see his marble hog!!!</font></strong></p><p><strong><font color="#000080"></font></strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><span class="post_edited"></span>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by bobogolem on 2-19-07 @ 7:55 PM</span>

[blakjeezis]

<p>And marble bag.&nbsp;</p>

[ShelleBink]

<strong>douggrasso</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>A.J.</strong> wrote:<br />&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to start an issue about censorship,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;But you won&rsquo;t find men&rsquo;s genitalia in quality literature.&rdquo; <p>Or art.</p><p><img src="http://propro.ru/go/Album/it/images/david.jpg" border="0" width="420" height="768" /></p><p>or porn. wait, i dont think i get this.</p><p>now all i need is a fiery car crash</p>

[foodcourtdruide]

<p>Scary stuff.</p>

[IamFogHat]

THAT'S IT.&nbsp; FUCK AMERICA.&nbsp; YOU'RE DEAD TO ME.

[Fezticle98]

<p>Newberry Medal? Meh, it's not like it won the Caldicott Award and had a <strong>picture</strong> of a scrotum.</p>

[scottinnj]

<strong>reeshy</strong> wrote:<br />I'm shocked....who knew dogs had scrotums!!!!!! <p>Mine doesn't.&nbsp; Not after an overnight stay at the ASPCA.&nbsp; No more doggy scrotum.</p>