Clifford ~ The big red dog
The Hungry Caterpillar

Charlottes Web....i so loved that book
Of Mice And Men ~ it was a good book too

Didnt read David Eddings at school....but love his books

ok...i'm curious...what the hell is the book about tigers turning into butter? *LOL*

oh...interesting story...in an odd way *L*

A lot of the controversy involved the illustrations which I did not include because I wanted you to read just the story first.

http://www.abebooks.com/images/Book...eBlackSambo.jpg

http://www.seriesbooks.com/littlebl...tellatale02.jpg

http://www.little-black-sambo.com/images/lbs.gif

http://www.fortunecity.com/bennyhil...blacksambo3.jpg

http://cache.tias.com/stores/wsts/pictures/lbslgb6a.jpg

Here is the current popular version http://images.amazon.com/images/G/c...803720289.l.gif

Oh i remember the Little Golden Books version lol.....i used to have that one *LOL*any wonder it was vaguely (and i mean really vaguely) familiar......but i remember the cover vividly

I remembered the Little Golden Book cover.

Racist? Bullshit!

I even had a gollywog when I was a kid...

They've talked about ceasing production of black jelly babies.

Noddy was banned from some libraries because the naughty comic relief was golliwogs, taken by some as racist.

They haven't banned "Merchant of Venice" because it vilifies Jews (yet).

When I was 5 or 6, I was reading Thumbelina outside. I got distracted & went off to do something else. Being Newfoundland & the weather ever-changing, it started to rain & my library book was ruined. I was devastated & thought my mother & the librarian would be angry but it worked out. My mother bought a nicer copy of the book for the library and that was that. :)

I loved so many books . . . the Bobbsey (sp.) twins, moving on to Nancy Drew, Encyclopedia Brown, all the Judy Blumes, Beverly Cleary & Charlotte's Web like so many. I also read Animal Farm when I was really young & didn't fully understand it but it kickstarted me reading & writing satire for the rest of my life.

Lil, I just recalled an episode from high school that I suppose might loosly tie in with this topic & the "LBS" thing, as well you might find of interest as a techer. In 10th grade English, the whole class was assigned reading Huck Finn (certainly a classic of American literature), couple months later our teacher told us she had just found that it had just gone on the list of forbidden books in school (mostly for the use of the "N" word), & she begged us all to not mention to ANYBODY that she had assigned it...I had found the book fairly entertaining, & while I can understand how some might find it offensive, I thought the book was the OPPOSITE of racist (the boys were befriending a slave & helping him escape, after all), & Twain was just using the authentic language that would have been used by a Missouri boy in the 1800's...

The Anastasia series in particular...and I think they now have a series for Anastasia's little brother that's more targeted to boys.

http://www.loislowry.com/books.html

When books are burned (banned) in the end people will be burned too.

Heinrich Heine
German critic & poet (1797 - 1856)

Not so much a chapter book, but I enjoyed the Shel Silverstein books - Where the Sidewalk Ends ... and the other one, the name escapes me at the moment.

Thanks osuche! I had only read the last ones on that list and am surprised to see she wrote so very different.

cue for treason (grade 6)