No publicity is bad publicity. When Susan Patron won the Newberry
Medal for her book "The Higher Power of Lucky" I didn't hear a thing.
When her book got banned from school libraries, I read about it in The New York Times. Of course now I want to buy it for my kids.
Why
did it get banned? On the first page the kid sees his dog get bitten by
a rattlesnake - on the scrotum. I guess school libraries don't like
biology words. The word 'amniocentesis' really freaks me out. I wonder if I can get that banned too?
Okay,
clearly the school systems were objecting to referring to the nut sack
in a children's book. I'm just glad they are using the proper word for
it. I realize I'm pretty liberal when it comes to discussing
reproduction with my children, but I don't see how hearing - no reading the word scrotum is going to hurt anybody. One librarian was quoted as saying 'I
don’t want to start an issue about censorship... but you
won’t find men’s genitalia in quality literature.'
I think I see the problem. Why are people so uptight about balls?
