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Censorship Resources for Children

Censorship Resources for Children. Susan Davidson LIS 611 October 29, 2013. Nonfiction Resources for Children and YA. Nonfiction Resources for YA. Part of the Opposing Viewpoints series for YA

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Censorship Resources for Children

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  1. Censorship Resources for Children Susan Davidson LIS 611 October 29, 2013

  2. Nonfiction Resources for Children and YA

  3. Nonfiction Resources for YA • Part of the Opposing Viewpoints series for YA • Includes articles by a diverse array of authors with contrasting views on various aspects of the censorship debate, such as media censorship during times of war, Internet filtering, book banning, and flag desecration • Also features discussion questions, information for organizations on both sides of censorship, and an extensive bibliography

  4. Nonfiction Resources for YA • Part of the Issues That Concern You series • Unlike previous book, not every essay is countered with one from the opposite perspective • Touches on some different issues, including censorship of movies and TV, self-censorship in the publishing industry • Concludes with facts on censorship, list of organizations involved in censorship debate, bibliography, and information on addressing censorship

  5. More Nonfiction Resources for YA Authors of Banned Books series Our Freedom to Read series Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds, Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds, Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds, Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds The Rights of Students Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers

  6. Nonfiction Resources for Children • Part of the What Do We Mean by Human Rights? series • Considers communication and freedom of speech throughout the world and throughout history, including sidebars for specific case studies about censorship issues • Includes list of organizations to contact about free speech issues

  7. More Nonfiction Resources for Children A Kids’ Guide to America’s Bill of Rights Banned Books (Hot Topics in Media series) Censorship (Past and Present series) Censorship (A First Book series)

  8. Censorship in Juvenile and YA Fiction

  9. Arthur and the Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club • Arthur and the Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club by Marc Brown (1998) • Arthur and his friends are upset when their favorite series of books is banned from the local public library and they join the fight to save the books

  10. The Landry News • The Landry News by Andrew Clements (1999) • A school newspaper produced as a class project in a fifth-grade classroom sparks both intellectual curiosity and controversies over freedom of the press

  11. Americus • Americus by MK Reed and Jonathan Hill(2011) • In small-town Oklahoma, conservative Christians try to ban an extremely popular fantasy series because it promotes witchcraft

  12. Fahrenheit 451 • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953) • Describes a future society in which books are outlawed and firemen burn any books that they find

  13. The Year They Burned the Books • The Year They Burned the Books by Nancy Garden (1999) • As a result of a controversy over the sex-education curriculum in a small New England town, the editor of the school paper finds her editorials censored, books burned, and her community in an uproar.

  14. Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You by Dorian Cirrone (2005) The Day They Came to Arrest the Book by Nat Hentoff (1982) The Sledding Hill by Chris Crutcher (2005) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (2005) The Loud Silence of Francine Green by Karen Cushman (2006)

  15. Online Resources • Judy Blume, an anti-censorship activist, has an entire section of her website devoted to information about censorship for her readers: • http://judyblume.com/censorship.php

  16. Online Resources • National Coalition against Censorship: Kids’ Right to Read Project and Youth Free Expression Project • http://ncac.org/Kids-Right-to-Read • http://www.ncac.org/yfep • ALSC, Kids, Know Your Rights!: A Young Person’s Guide to Intellectual Freedom • http://www.ala.org/alsc/sites/ala.org.alsc/files/content/issuesadv/intellectualfreedom/kidsknowyourrights.pdf • Authors Stand Up for Free Speech (Penguin Young Readers) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjpR0Re1jDU

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