Maurice Sendak’s books have been frequently challenged in libraries, in particular his children’s book In the Night Kitchen, an award-winning book that features a young boy’s dream journey through a baker’s kitchen. The book upset many librarians and adults because…
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Case Study: Ice Haven
In 2008, Guilford, Connecticut high school teacher Nate Fisher was forced to resign from his job after a parent filed both a formal and a police complaint against him for lending a high school freshman English student a copy of…
Case Study: Fun Home
Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a graphic novel memoir of the author’s childhood, particularly focused on her relationship with her closeted gay father Bruce. As Alison grows older and realizes that she is a lesbian, she and…
Case Study: Dragon Ball
In 2009, the Dragon Ball graphic novel series by Akira Toriyama was removed from all public school media centers in Wicomico County, MD because the books depict violence and contain nudity. Dragon Ball follows the adventures of Goku and his…
Case Study: The Dark Knight Strikes Again
Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again is the sequel to The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller’s popular and gritty take on the mythos of Gotham City’s nocturnal superhero. Set three years after the events of The Dark Knight Returns, it…
Case Study: The Color of Earth
When the American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom released their list of the Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2011, the second-most challenged book on that list was The Color of Earth, the first book of a critically-acclaimed…
Case Study: Bone
Although considered a modern comics classic that’s delighted millions of readers all over the world, Jeff Smith’s Bone is also one of the most commonly challenged books in American libraries. Bone tells of three creatures known as the Bones, who…
Case Study: Maus
Art Spiegelman’s acclaimed graphic novel Maus focuses on a son’s quest to learn about his father’s history as a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust. The graphic novel is split into two alternating stories: One story is set in the…
Case Study: Blankets
In 2006, Craig Thompson’s celebrated graphic novel, Blankets, was challenged in the Marshall, Missouri Public Library. Blankets is the semiautobiographical story of Thompson’s upbringing in a religious family, his first love, and how he came to terms with his religious…
Case Study: Amazing Spider-Man: Revelations
Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is the last character you’d expect to see swatted off of a school library’s shelves, but that was exactly what happened in 2009 when a parent in Millard, Nebraska protested the inclusion of Amazing Spider-Man: Revelations…