The American Library Association’s Banned Books Week starts in the U.S. this Saturday, September 27th and runs through Saturday, October 4th.
I have been working on a new Banned Books Library on LibraryThing. Check it out if you would like to see list of many of the books challenged, banned, and censored throughout the world. You can browse the actual library to see what books you might have that have been banned. The American Library Association also has a list of frequently challenged books.
So go on, celebrate your freedom to read during Banned Books Week by reading a book that has been banned or challenged. I’m planning on rereading Lois Lowry’s “The Giver.’ What banned book are you going to read?
Found around the web, some Banned Books Week posters for your viewing enjoyment:
I love the posters – especially the one with the Statue of Liberty reading.
The Book Lady Blog is also celebrating – she’s got the fREADom poster on her site and so do I. I took a few minutes today to post about the first case of censorship I remember – and what I did about it.
The posters are terrific. I think I’m going to have to look for some to post next week.
The Giver is also on my re-read list for this week. Excellent selection
I’ve got by Banned Books Week post all drafted and ready to go. If I can manage it I’d love to put up a review a day (mind you of very short books). But let’s see if I talk myself out of that one. Because seriously, I really need to talk myself out of it. Sometimes I think I’m crazy.
I love all of these posters!!!
By coincidence, I’m reading The Grapes of Wrath for my bookclub.
Banned Books Week is great. My library system usually aims all the promotion towards the teens, since most banned books are for teens, and sometimes smaller children.
I still think Where’s Waldo is my favorite of the banned books list. That one I still don’t understand the offense…
I love the Censorship Causes Blindness poster. Would you mind terribly if I used it?
Off to check out your library…
softdrink – Feel free, I just found it around the web. If you click on the poster it will show it at full size and you can save it to your computer and upload it, that will give you better resolution.
These are really excellent posters! I was so excited to find out that Banned Book Week starts on the very day I’m hoping to get Salmon Rushdie’s autograph on my copy of The Satanic Verses. I will fess up and say that I haven’t actually read TSV, but I intend to over the course of the next month or so. Great post!!!!
I love the poster with the Statue of Liberty – very clever!
The Giver is a popular one, isn’t it? I’ll be reading it here later in the week. Started with Slaughterhouse-Five today. Almost through it, and then on to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone tomorrow….love the posters as well, been wondering where to get some to put up. Thanks for sharing.
Any idea why The Giver was banned? That’s crazy!
Speaking of banned books, watch for the forthcoming novel about the prophet Mohammed called The Jewel of Medina. It has been through a lot because a small faction of radical Muslims claim it is offensive to Islam. Its UK publisher was actually firebombed, putting publication on hold – at least temporarily.