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Too Graphic? 2014 Banned Books Week Celebrates Challenged Comics from NPR
- Westover's Celebration Of Captain Underpants
On Wednesday, Dec. 14, Arlington students celebrated Dav Pilkey's Captain Underpants series at the Westover Branch Library. Kids from kindergarten to fifth grade made underwear hats, answered trivia challenges, and competed in the toilet toss...
- Summer Reading: Real Kids Recommend # 2
Is you child looking for a good book for Summer Reading? Parents, librarians, and teachers can recommend books to children, but nothing works as well as hearing what books other kids are reading and loving. Jamira recommends Captain Underpants and the...
- Why Celebrate Banned Books Week?
What is the point of Banned Books Week? To remind us of our "freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be considered unorthodox or unpopular.?(ALA) So join us Sept. 25 - Oct. 2 in commemorating our...
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- Banned Books
September 29 through October 6 was Banned Books Week. This annual event reminds us Americans not to take the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one?s opinion for granted. I?ve read banned books, and I bet you have, too. The list of banned books...
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The No. 1 spot on the list of frequently most challenged books for 2014 is...
...Captain Underpants
"I don't consider the books to be anti-authoritarian," he [author Dave Pilky] says, "but I do think it is important, if you think something is wrong, to question authority ? because, you know, there are villains in real life, and they don't always wear black capes and black hats. Sometimes they're dressed like authority figures. And kids need to know that it's important to question them."Read more
Too Graphic? 2014 Banned Books Week Celebrates Challenged Comics from NPR
- Westover's Celebration Of Captain Underpants
On Wednesday, Dec. 14, Arlington students celebrated Dav Pilkey's Captain Underpants series at the Westover Branch Library. Kids from kindergarten to fifth grade made underwear hats, answered trivia challenges, and competed in the toilet toss...
- Summer Reading: Real Kids Recommend # 2
Is you child looking for a good book for Summer Reading? Parents, librarians, and teachers can recommend books to children, but nothing works as well as hearing what books other kids are reading and loving. Jamira recommends Captain Underpants and the...
- Why Celebrate Banned Books Week?
What is the point of Banned Books Week? To remind us of our "freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be considered unorthodox or unpopular.?(ALA) So join us Sept. 25 - Oct. 2 in commemorating our...
- All News Page Topics: A-z
A ABBIE Award / Arlington History / Arlington Shop / Art / Aurora Hills Branch Library / Author Talks B Book Groups / Books-on-the-Pike / Books-outside-the-box / Books-Sandwiched-In / Branch Managers C Central / Cherrydale Branch Library / Cherrydale...
- Banned Books
September 29 through October 6 was Banned Books Week. This annual event reminds us Americans not to take the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one?s opinion for granted. I?ve read banned books, and I bet you have, too. The list of banned books...