Did Sarah Palin wanted to ban the following books--even books by Mortified's patron saint of teen angst Judy Blume-- from her Alaskan liberry? Here's an email forwarded to me via Mortified LA:
From: Judith
Sent: Sep 7, 2008 11:30 AM
To: ARLIS-L@xxx.xxxEDU
Subject: [ARLIS-L] Books censored by Sarah Palin
The following is a list of books that Sarah Palin tried to get banned when she was mayor of Wasilla.
This information is taken from the official minutes of the Wasilla Library Board.
When the librarian refused to ban the books, Palin tried to get her fired.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth
10 comments:
While I believe that it is true that she tried to ban books in her public library...not even the school library, I might add...that list that is going around is probably incorrect. It shows the same books from this website:
http://www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html
which are books that have been banned at one time or another in the US. Could be that she used this as the list, but more likely it is just an internet fabrication.
Looks to be completely false. Here is the Snopes page.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/bannedbooks.asp
According to this Sep 2 article by WILLIAM YARDLEY
(Published: September 2, 2008) Ms. Palin tried to ban the books:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/us/politics/03wasilla.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Oh, I'm not saying she didn't ask about banning books. She did. Just like the article you provided says.
It's just that the list you provided that is internet rumor. She never provided a list and later said that her inquiry was only "rhetorical". Just like it is stated in that article.
Doesn't make her any less evil for wanting to ban books, but there is enough wrong with this woman in truth to be against her. We don't need any made-up reasons.
word, b.e. earl. word .
Why ban the books... just cut back on school funding and then kids can't read any books. That way you won't have to ban new books in the future. It's win/win.
DEL-V IN O8
More rhetoric from the left, lets see the "wrong",earl. I can show you a BIG list of wrongs with Obama that the media will continue to turn a blind eye to because he's their man, so much for "reporting" the facts. I will give you credit for recognizing the list as an internet fake, there's alot of that going around about her.
oh don't worry, he's "not that guy" folks!
Awww shoot! I wanted to see not that guy! I couldn't! There is no not that guy site! In fact, is there really a guy who is doing the not that guy comments? Not!
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