Banned Book Week

September 29-October 6, 2007

King and King

2007

Parents of a Lexington (MA) second-grader protested that their son's teacher read the fairy tale about gay marriage to the class without wrning the parents first. The book was used as part of a lesson about differt types of weddings.

2005

Restricted to adults at Freeman Elementary School's library in Wilmington (NC) because the children's book is about a prince who's true love turns out to be another prince. Moved from children's section to the Adult section at the Shelbyville-Shelby County (IN) Public Library because the book's homosexual story was considered inappropriate by a parent. Challenged by seventy Oklahoma state legislators calling for the book to be removed from the children's section and placed in the adult section of the Metropolitan Library System in Oklahoma City (OK).

2004

Restricted to adults in a school's library in Wilmington (NC) because the children's book is about a prince who's true love turns out to be another prince.

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