Is that right?
2006-07-18 08:06:47 · 7 answers · asked by tardis1977 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
As everyone with a brain should know. The word is *********.
2006-07-18 08:10:31 · update #1
Some school system somewhere has banned most books at one time or another.
MY FRIEND FLICKA by Mary O'Hara
In 1990 the book (first published in 1941) was excised from 5th- and 6th-grade optional reading lists in Clay County, Florida schools. The book uses the word "b**ch" to accurately refer to a female dog and the word "damn."
2006-07-18 08:12:29 · answer #1 · answered by Mork the Stork 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
My Friend Flicka Book
2016-09-30 11:37:40 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if it was ever officially "banned in Boston" as they used to say, but I do remember my parents discussing this when I was just a child. The memory sticks with me because the movie had just arrived in our local theatre and I badly wanted to see it!
Many Christian groups had demonstrated and protested at booksales, and preachers of all descriptions based Sunday sermons on the subject. When the movie came out, it received similar public lambasting from the so-called "Bible Belt." Our pastor had been on about it at services the week before, but my Dad was ever a rebel, so I got to see the movie!
It was not really a "children's" movie, but the only part that interested me at the time was the horse and its young owner! I really don't remember anything controversial about the story, so it must have sailed right over my innocent young head. I seem to remember that there was more to it than just the word b-i-t-c-h, though.
2006-07-18 08:25:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably. A lot of books have been banned at one time or another, including "Farenheit 451" which is a book about book banning/burning.
2006-07-18 08:09:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where do you think it was banned? Maybe a certain school or organization did, but it's not on the list kept by the American Library Association.
2006-07-18 08:12:08 · answer #5 · answered by kalsmom 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hadn't heard this, but I totally believe it. People who censor books are usually raving ignoramuses, not to mention prudes with tiny heads.
2006-07-18 08:08:51 · answer #6 · answered by mistersato 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was banned from a school system at one point but i'm sure it's not anymore.
2006-07-18 08:25:06 · answer #7 · answered by Emily! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋