Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne, children’s poet Shel Silverstein and Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson have joined Judy Blume, Sarah J. Maas, Eric Carle and Kurt Vonnegut on a mind-boggling list of hundreds of books purged from some Tennessee school libraries.
I was about to jump in and defend the heck out of Shel Silverstein but it’s based on a broad sweeping nudity ban?
That’s fair. That man was an accidental children’s book author and the best kind of weirdo.
The ban is dumb but his inclusion less so.
I said before but my guess is that with Shel they saw the title “A Boy Named Sue” and automatically banned him.