The Book Show

same reasons and sometimes it’s a different reason. Why have they been banned? Why have countries like North Korea, Kenya, Zimbabwe, and the United Arab Emirates banned this book about animals who revolt against the farmers, but fall into a corrupt leadership. Why ban a book that is read by children in the U.S.A and others? A book can be harmless on the outside, but can be dangerous on the inside. Animal Farm has been banned in many countries such as North Korea, which is understandable in this…

Elizabeth Kolbert summarizes an excerpt from a book titled “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” written by Amy Chua. The excerpt was assigned to her children in school, stating that the children’s teacher had been given the article from a friend who received it via a long-shared chain of emails. Kolbert goes over the main essential parts of the essay while maintaining a non-biased opinion of the article. Kolbert uses many of Chua’s more controversial points to invoke thinking in the reader, often…

Bridge to Terabithia, written by Katherine Paterson, is a novel meant for elementary schoolers, but this book has been banned in schools across the country. Now for a book to be banned it needs to be controversial, and most of Katherine Paterson’s books, Bridge to Terabithia specifically, fit that criteria. Banned in the U.S.A., by Herbert N. Foerstel, contains a section about Paterson and her works. It reads that most of her works are banned not for their content, but because they are too…

Put a Stop to Banned Books “Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous- they contain ideas” (Hautman). Pete Hautman was indeed correct. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone has been banned. Books offer kids to get ideas and have the power to imagine, they teach kids life lessons, and authors have the right to publish their work and share their ideas. These reasons apply to why Harry Potter should not have been banned. “Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind…

for a book to read, I look for various things. For example, if the story sounds appealing, whether or not I feel like I can get lost in it, and if the artwork on the cover can draw me in. Since I am an avid book collector, I look for books that are in the best possible condition. With some exceptions, I will buy a used novel that may have dog-eared pages or minor markings not original to the text. Based upon this, I chose a specific novel that I have read, against the advice of others. This book…

Benjamin Franklin once said, “If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.” Benjamin Franklin portrays what the world will be like if books get censored. Censorship is the act or process of removing or suppressing materials that are considered to be morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable. The Fair Lawn Board of Education is evaluating the current selection of the things read in the eighth-grade…

Chris Crutcher argues in his article, “How They Do It”, that school systems should not become easily persuaded by the parents’ complaints to censor books that should be a part of the curriculum that their children benefit from due to the fact that the students can relate, learn, and build off of the books that are censored. Crutcher builds his argument throughout his article by including the use of personal anecdotes, pathos, and repetition. Due to the fact that Crutcher includes the use of…

"girl stuff." Lexi's favorite genre is fiction, and the last book she read was El Deafo, by Cece Bell, which she enjoyed. Lexi's reading goal is to improve on bigger words, although she still considers herself a talented reader. Lexi definitely loves to laugh since she enjoys Americas Home Funnies Videos and books with humor.…

For the purposes of this paper, I will analyze and discuss seven different children’s literature books that depict people of different cultures and identities. I chose these books because these books challenge children’s preconceived notions about certain groups and help them change those. These books encourage children to not only understand the diversity in the classroom but to appreciate and accept them too and apply this mindset in the classroom and their community as well. In an inclusive…

There has been a grand total of 129,864,880 books published ever. All of these fall into the category of essential questions that I have learned. Some of the books also contain some of the essential questions that I have found interesting. This year in english class we read Night by Elie Wiesel and the novel contains the essential question of seeking justice and bearing witness about terrible things that have happened like the holocaust and to promote what happened so the act can be prevented…