{"id":5027,"date":"2020-07-06T10:11:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T15:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=5027"},"modified":"2022-04-21T11:01:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T15:01:19","slug":"prince-and-knight","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/prince-and-knight\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2020 &#8211; Prince &amp; Knight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"\">\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<p><!-- *  START LEFT COLUMN  *--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-3\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"\"><a id=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2020\/author\/\">2020 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2020\/title\/\">2020 Title<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/\">Banned Books Home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><hr \/><\/p>\n<h2>Cover<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/07\/prince-and-knight.jpg\" alt=\"prince &amp; knight\" width=\"1400\" height=\"2003\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2679\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cabellcounty.ent.sirsi.net\/client\/en_US\/cabell\/search\/results?qu=prince+%26+knight&amp;qf=AUTHOR%09Author%09Haack%2C+Daniel%2C+author.%09Haack%2C+Daniel%2C+author.&amp;rt=false%7C%7C%7CTITLE%7C%7C%7CTitle\">Held at Cabell County Public Library.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- *** ** END LEFT COLUMN ** ***-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p><p><!-- *** ** START RIGHT COLUMN ** **--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-9\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<p><strong>Marshall University does not ban books!  The information is provided to let people know what has been banned\/challenged elsewhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>2020<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged and restricted for featuring a gay marriage and LGBTQIA+ content; for being &#8220;a deliberate attempt to indoctrinate young children&#8221; with the potential to cause confusion, curiosity, and gender dysphoria; and for conflicting with a religious viewpoint.<\/p>\n<p>A staff member of the ImagineIF Libraries (Kallispell, MT) read this gay-positive children&#8217;s book to a visiting daycare class of four and five-year olds. The teacher protested the topic&#8217;s presentation to a group of &#8220;innocent school children,&#8221; and in a letter to the newspaper said the book should not only never be read to children again, but it should also be removed from the library altogether. Hundreds of complaints about the book were sent to the library, including comments from an angry county commissioner. During a public meeting, the board received many comments. Most were favorable to the library and the book. The board voted to retain the book, but adopted a new program policy.<\/p>\n<p>After a complaint from a local pastor claiming the book &#8220;is a deliberate attempt to indoctrinate young children, especially boys, into the LGBTQA lifestyle,&#8221; this children&#8217;s book about to male characters who fall in love after fighting a dragon was withdrawn by the director of the Upshur County (WV) Public Library. The library board president refused to discuss the issue or hear public comments but did state that the book is retained in the children&#8217;s section.<\/p>\n\n<p>Parents and teachers disagreed over the presence of LGBTQAI+ books that were purchased for a &#8220;diverse classroom libraries&#8221; initiative in the Loudoun County (VA) elementary and high schools. Twenty-seven books were formally challenged including <b>Heather Has Two Mommies<\/b> by Leslea Newman, <b>My Princess Boy<\/b> by Cheryl Kilodavis, Prince &amp; Knight by Daniel Haack, <b>So Hard to Say<\/b> by Alex Sanchez, <b>Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things<\/b> by Lenore Look, <b>Big Bob, Little Bob<\/b> by James Howe, <b>Dragons in a Bag<\/b> by Zetta Elliott, <b>Flowers from Mariko<\/b> by Rich Noguchi and Deneen Jenks, <b>Gabi, a Girl in Pieces<\/b> by Isabel Quintero, <b>Girls Like Me<\/b> by Nina Packebush, <b> Goldie Vance<\/b> by Hope Larson, <b>Hurrican Child<\/b> by Kacen Callender, <b>Mommy&#8217;s Khimar<\/b> by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, <b>My Year in the Middle<\/b> by Lila Quintero Weaver, <b>Other Broken Things<\/b> by C. Desir, <b> Rani Patel In Full Effect<\/b> by Sonia Patel, <b> The Season of You &amp; Me<\/b> by Robine Constantine, <b>Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad<\/b> by James Rumford, <b>The Pants Project<\/b> by Cat Clarke, <b>The Witch Boy<\/b> by Molly Ostertag, <b>The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle<\/b> by Leslie Connor, <b> Want to Play Trucks?<\/b> by Ann Stott, <b>We March<\/b> by Shane W. Evans, <b>Weird Girl and What&#8217;s His Name<\/b> by Meagan Brothers, <b>Willow and the Wedding<\/b> by Denise Brennan-Nelson, <b> Zora and Me<\/b> by Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon, and <b>Ask My Mood Ring How I Feel<\/b> by Diana Lopez. Four titles were relocated to the middle school and three titles were relocated to higher grades within the school.<\/p>\n<h2>On These Pages<\/h2>\n<p>A <strong>Banned<\/strong> book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.<br \/>\nA <strong>Challanged<\/strong> book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>For additional information contact<\/h2>\n<p>Ron Titus, <a href=\"mailto:titus@marshall.edu\">titus@marshall.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:304-696-6575\">304-696-6575<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Last updated<\/h2>\n<p>August 12, 2020<\/p>\n<p><!-- ** ** END RIGHT COLUMN *** *-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><!-- *** * END FULL PAGE DIV * *** --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"parent":2039,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5027","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5027"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9874,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5027\/revisions\/9874"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}