Nasreen's Secret School Book Analysis

Nasreen’s Secret School is a book that parents have been trying to get banned for being too violent, having a religious viewpoint and being unsuitable for the children that are reading it (third graders). Now this children’s book is about Nasreen a young girl who was living with her grandmother in Afghanistan during the Taliban rule. It is narrated by the grandmother who talks about the challenges little Nasreen faced and it shows the power of having access to education. It seems pretty harmless doesn’t it? Well some parents don’t think so. Some parents say that the book “promoting prayer to someone other than God.” (Alli September 28 2016) and that the book “teaches religion and is inappropriate for younger students.” (Sery January 07, 2016). Parents even said that their kids were being made to remember the prayer from the book. Some parents say the violence in the book is too much for the children in the book. Especially the part were the Nasreen’s parents are taken away and she never sees them again. It makes it seem like the book is not for children. Some parents say that the age group is for this book third, fourth …show more content…
She says “I really don’t understand how the religion part got into Nasreen’s Secret School.” It is true that there is religion in the book but it doesn’t play a big role in the book. It only mentions the Koran and then the grandmother says a brief prayer and that’s it. Not only that but Jeanette Winter says, “I mean the child in this book was probably around the age of a third grader, she was living this, this was her life, and so the idea that a child in this country couldn’t understand that is I think it’s selling our children short,” (Sery January 07, 2016) which she does have a point. Kids aren’t dumb. If a third grader was able to understand everything that was going on around her than third graders should also be able to understand what’s going