Book bans were on the rise in the 2023-24 school year–sometimes for understandable reasons, sometimes not.
Tag Archives: Where the Wild Things Are
Unexpected Book Bans
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The Good News: Dragons Can Be Defeated
Chesterton gave Neil Gaiman the idea that we love fairy tales because they assure us that dragons can be killed.
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Honoring Our Inner Wild Rumpus
Illustration from Where the Wild Things Are I see that Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are (1963) has been turned into a film, which has led Slate columnist Jack Shafer to revisit a controversy about the book. Apparently Sendak still can’t let go of a critique by psychologist Bruno Bettelheim. I was surprised to learn […]
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