I love that book, and I can not understand why the heck it would be banned. Most of the little things that I've strained to find that could possibly be "bad" are stupid and kids wouldn't get them anyway.
2006-11-24 20:14:49 · 6 answers · asked by A. 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The Times of London reported that James and the Giant Peach was once banned in a Wisconsin town because a reference to Spider licking her lips could be "taken in two ways, including sexual."
Meanwhile, during a discussion of free speech, Chris Champion, the marketing director of Thackery's Bookstore in Toledo, Ohio, attested that the book had also been banned for advocating communism.
Other challenges to James and the Giant Peach are a bit more conventional. The use of the word "***" led to a 1991 challenge in Altoona, Wisconsin. One year later, a woman in Hernando County, Florida, took issue with Grasshopper's statement, "I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by a Mexican!", as well as references to snuff, tobacco and whiskey. Her complaints to her 10-year-old daughter's school principal led to review by the regional school board.
The details of James's nasty living conditions, as well as the aforementioned deaths of Sponge and Spiker, have been criticized for too scary. In fact, it was pulled from an elementary school in Charlotte Harbor, Florida, for being inappropriate reading for children.
It also was removed from Stafford County, Virgina, schools for encouraging children to disobey adults. That the adults in question are abusive seems to have been a bit besides the point.
There's no surprise that Dahl said that parents made the ideal villans for his kids books. In an interview with The Independent just before he died, he said, "Parents and schoolteachers are the enemy. The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all."
Of course, what that says of his view towards children may explain why he does all those awful things to the kids in Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Penguin USA
ISBN: 0140374248
2006-11-24 20:26:46 · answer #1 · answered by iroc 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You won't believe this but here it is.... James and the Giant Peach was removed from classes in Virginia because it promoted disobedience towards authority figures.
Sad. True.
All censorship is dangerous.
2006-11-25 04:23:54 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Banned by whom? It's in my library
2006-11-25 09:44:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where is it banned? Not in the west.
2006-11-25 06:14:55 · answer #4 · answered by jcboyle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Banned by whom?
In what country?
It's 6.99 at B & N, buy it today.
2006-11-25 04:17:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wait are you kidding or is this for real??
2006-11-25 04:23:23 · answer #6 · answered by Eric J 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋