Banned Books Week: Mark Twain
October 1st, 2007 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
#84 on the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000
“The Committee of the Public Library of Concord, Mass, have given us a rattling tip-top puff which will go into every paper in the country. They have expelled Huck from their library as ‘trash and suitable only for the slums.’ That will sell 25,000 copies for us sure.”
- Mark Twain
Angela Gunn at USA Today’s Tech_Space blog has a great entry for Banned Books Week And Tango Makes Three, a children’s book about the two homosexual penguins, Silo and Roy, who currently reside at the Central Park Zoo.
