Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne, children’s poet Shel Silverstein and Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson have joined Judy Blume, Sarah J. Maas, Eric Carle and Kurt Vonnegut on a mind-boggling list of hundreds of books purged from some Tennessee school libraries.
I don’t think that’s it. It’s named after philosophers, the people banning aren’t always stupid. I bet Calvin seems like a left wing propagandist to them too.
You’re not wrong, in general. But in this specific case, in Tennessee, it’s specifically about the nudity.
It’s “nudity” of any type, which puts the Venus de Milo in the same category as Brazzers.
Thanks for clarifying. I was giving them more credit than was due.
I was about to jump in and defend the heck out of Shel Silverstein but it’s based on a broad sweeping nudity ban?
That’s fair. That man was an accidental children’s book author and the best kind of weirdo.
The ban is dumb but his inclusion less so.
I said before but my guess is that with Shel they saw the title “A Boy Named Sue” and automatically banned him.