[CALIBK12] Fwd: Just So Stories

[Broger Mackey, Lori]

Susan,
 
According to the ALA publication, Banned Books by Robert Doyle, Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling was "challenged at the Hardin Park Elementary School library in Watauga County, N.C. (1990) because the word "nigger" appears in the story "How the Leopard Got Its Spots."  
 
The book, Banned Books, is a wonderful resource.  I have it behind the circ desk (it's my personal copy), but students can read it anytime they ask.  It gives the author, title, place, date, and even the reason (quoted reasons too when available) for the banned/challenged book in question.  
 
Lori Broger-Mackey, TL
Cleveland HS, Reseda

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Subject: [CALIBK12] Fwd: Just So Stories





Dear Colleagues,
I recently found a set of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories  in our textbook room.  I noticed that the copy in my hand had How the Leopard Got his Spots cut out and the first and last page of the story were striped with permanent marker.  I looked at other copies and they too were cut and marked.  Does anyone have information on a possible censorship of this story?  I  looked on-line briefly yesterday, but wasn't able to find anything through ALA.  


PresenceIcon <http://presence.webmail.aol.com/IM/?sn=gradypb&locale=en-us&pd=0> Susan Baranich, TL
Thomas Starr King Middle School
Los Angeles, LAUSD
gradypb at aol.com 

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