Books That Were Banned for Surprisingly Dumb Reasons

Children's books are under the gun, but it's been that way for a long time. Usually it's for content that may be too sexual for some tastes, or too violent, or because someone's feelings were hurt. Sometimes the most innocuous books get a ban because people read things into them that aren't there at all, which tells us more about the book critic than about the book itself.

If you were to read a line in a children's book that said a character licked his lips, a well-read person would know that means they were anticipating eating something tasty. But that went completely over someone's head, or quite a few someones, because that was the line that got James and the Giant Peach banned in Wisconsin once. A spider licked her lips and that was interpreted as being overly sexual. Read about that case and those of eight other books that were banned for the strangest reasons at Cracked. 


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Thanks for the warning, Alan.Well, so I didn't read the article, at the risk of being repetitive, I will say that Julianne Moore's children's book "Freckle face Strawberry" just got banned curtesy of trump's chumps. I had no idea freckles were such a threat to our youngun's. My dog is Genny Freckles. Perhaps there may be an issue regarding my dog soon to come?
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I stopped reading Cracked when they thought it was cute to put a giant header that covers the upper 1/3 of the screen plus a giant footer-ad that covers the bottom 1/4 of the screen, leaving just a little sliver on my monitor to look through.
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