What do you think about Banned Books Week?

What do you think about Banned Books Week?

Banned Books Week 2021 will be held September 26 – October 2. The theme of this year’s event is “Books Unite Us. By focusing on efforts across the country to remove or restrict access to books, Banned Books Week draws national attention to the harms of censorship.

How do you talk about banned books?

Here are some ways to chat with your kids about Banned Books Week:

1. Talk about what Banned Books Week means.
2. Talk about why Banned Books Week began.
3. Talk about what it means for a book to be banned.
4. Talk about why books are challenged or banned.
5. Talk about what might happen if every single challenged book was banned.

Is Book Week banned?

Banned Books Week (September 26-October 2, 2021) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools.

Why is Banned book Week important?

Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. By focusing on efforts across the country to remove or restrict access to books, Banned Books Week draws national attention to the harms of censorship.

What books are still banned today?

A surprising list of recently banned books

• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (2007)
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (2009)
• China Dream by Ma Jian (2018)
• Beartown by Fredrik Backman (2016)
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2002)

What constitutes a banned book?

According to the American Library Association, a banned book is a book that has been removed from the shelf of a library or school. A challenged books is a book that some people think should be removed, but hasn’t been removed from the shelves of a library or school.

Do we still need Banned Books Week?

This week we celebrate banned books, and yes even though it is 2018 we are still banning books. Every year the ALA office for Intellectual Freedom records several hundred attempts by groups and individual people, to have books removed from libraries and schools.

Why Banned Books Week is still important?

Banned Books Week not only encourages readers to examine challenged literary works, but also promotes intellectual freedom in libraries, schools, and bookstores.

What are some frequently banned books?

12 Books That Have Been Famously Banned Lady Chatterley’s Lover, DH Lawrence. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley. The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinback. The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall. American Psycho, Brett Easton Ellis.

Which books should be banned?

The topic is that should books be allowed to be banned from being reading in classes or in the school library. Some example of books that are banned in the united states schools are Moby-Dick, The Jungle, Howl, Catch-22, And Fahrenheit(From Here).