"But you won’t find men’s genitalia in quality literature. . . At least not for children." -- Dana Nilsson, teacher and librarian in Durango, Colo.
Ms. Nilsson is one of many "shocked" librarians who are so offended by the word "scrotum" that they are banning a Newberry Award winning book in school libraries across the country.
The author of the award-winning book says the character is, um, "learning about body parts."
Children are learning the names of body parts in our schools? My Gawd. What will those radical liberal commies try next?
New York Times:
Yet there it is on the first page of “The Higher Power of Lucky,” by Susan Patron, this year’s winner of the Newbery Medal, the most prestigious award in children’s literature. The book’s heroine, a scrappy 10-year-old orphan named Lucky Trimble, hears the word through a hole in a wall when another character says he saw a rattlesnake bite his dog, Roy, on the scrotum.
“Scrotum sounded to Lucky like something green that comes up when you have the flu and cough too much,” the book continues. “It sounded medical and secret, but also important.”
The inclusion of the word has shocked some school librarians, who have pledged to ban the book from elementary schools, and reopened the debate over what constitutes acceptable content in children’s books. The controversy was first reported by Publishers Weekly, a trade magazine.
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There's more about the liberal commie plot at the All Spin Zone and No More Mister Nice Blog.
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