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Fahrenheit 451: Banned Books
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A discussion on censorship through the Pelham Public Library, Fonthill, Ontario. A comprehensive list of "banned book" sites and resources for the novel "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury can be found on the sidebar.
- Author: Elaine Anderson
- Listed in: Books Culture
- Tags: resources freedom censorship banned books
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Stephen King on Censorship
Photo Credit: Tabitha KingThe Official Stephen King Web Site includes a column about censorship that was first published as a Guest Column in the March 20, 1992 issue of The Bangor Daily News. While this is an older column, it is well worth reading ...
Final Word on Vamos a Cuba
According to School Library Journal, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear arguments to overturn a decision by the Miami-Dade School District that took Vamos a Cuba off of public school library shelves. This means that the decision of the 11th U.S....
The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones movie is scheduled to be released in January 2010. According to Books Challenged or Banned in 2007-2008 by Robert P. Doyle, The Lovely Bones was "moved to the faculty section of the John W. McDevitt Middle School library in Waltham,...
US Book Challenges Mapped by Location
Check out the 2007 - 2009 challenges to books, mapped by location. These have been recorded on the Banned Books Week website. This map is drawn from cases documented by ALA and the Kids' Right to Read Project, a collaboration of the National Coalit...
American Banned Books Week
Just a quick reminder that the American Library Association Banned Books Weeks runs from September 26 − October 3, 2009. Check out the little drama created by Puppet Book Banners....
To Pull, Ban or Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is being pulled from the Grade 10 English curriculum at Brampton's St. Edmund Campion Secondary School following the complaint of a parent over the use of the n-word. The classic book d...
It really is interesting what similarities Ray Bradbury's book, Fahrenheit 451 has to the 2000's. We have large plasmascreen TV's, similar to the wall TV's that everyone had in the story. We have bluetooth earpieces that connect to our cell phones and ipods. You can listen to continuous music in a small plug that fits in your ear. That is strikingly similar to the seashell (or thimble) radios in the story. They were small, portable radios that continuously played music. If you think about it, what Ray Bradbury wrote was somewhat prophetic.
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