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This was on my local SCA mailing list, someone saying she had a basket of
books she would bring to events for children to use at events or borrow. I don't
know the person, so I'm guessing she works at a Christian school (she said
she works only in the mornings, and didn't say where), but it might be public.
I was just interested in the criteria and choices:

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These books were pulled from my school last year by the school board

for being "inappropriate," "violent" or "presenting a negative view

of Christianity."


"Castle" by David Macaulay Caldecott Honor hardback with dust jacket,

donated to my school by the albuquerque public library.


"Fast Forward Castle" by Peter Dennis hardback from a book fair


"In the Time of Knights" by Shelley Tanaka. Softcover biography of

William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke. Also from a book fair.


"Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales," selected, translated and

adapted for elementary children by Barbara Cohen. Hardback with dust

jacket, donated to my school by the albuquerque public library.


"Illuminations," by Jonathan Hunt. An ABC book. Hardback with dust

jacket, donated to my school by the albuquerque public library.


I don't mind hauling "loaner" books around to events -- I am a born

librarian after all -- but if anyone else has books to donate to the

basket, let me know.

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What WILL kids learn after the world has been sanitized for them?

Sandra

Nanci Kuykendall

>What WILL kids learn after the world has been
>sanitized for them?
>Sandra

That's pretty freaky. There is not even anything in
there about evolution or sex, that I can see. I
wonder what the objection was. I mean, an alphabet
book? Sheesh. And violence? What, the Bible doesn't
have any violence in it?

Nanci K.