I recently experienced a book challenge: King Stork, by Howard Pyle.
The challenge was by two people, each for a different part of the
book. One challenge was for the illustrations and the other was for the
text. Our committee reviewed the challenge according to our county
procedures and agreed to remove it from the shelf. Howard Pyle was a
famous painter and children's illustrator in the late 1800s and early
1900s. Among his works, he also wrote stories for Harper's Weekly. He
died in 1911. King Stork was part of a story collection by the author
that was later illustrated and published as a children's book in 1973.
It received the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for illustrations that
year. It was republished in 1998 but is now out of print. After review,
our committee determined that the illustrations were inappropriate for a
K-5 school and the "moral" of the story was to beat your wife into
submission if you want a happy marriage, among other innuendos the
committee determined to be present in the story line. I don't know if
this is what you're looking for but it made for very interesting
discussions regarding the time period in which he wrote it, for whom he
may have written it and why a female illustrator chose to illustrate it
as a children's book in 1973 - a time of the "women's lib movement".
Good luck.
Sarah Royal, Media Coordinator
Pine Valley Elementary School
440 John S. Mosby Drive
Wilmington, NC 28412
Phone (910) 350-2121 x234
Fax (910) 350-2116
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disclosure to third parties, including law enforcement.
>>> "Mary A. Book" <mabook@OPTONLINE.NET> 11/22/05 4:43 PM >>>
Hi all-
I am doing a paper on censorship. Does anyone have any experiences
that they will share?
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
M.A. Williams, Computer Technology Student
Fairfield, CT
mabook@optonline.net
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