Ban This!

The American Library Association's Banned Books Week is Sept. 26-Oct 3.

From the ALA: "Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.

Intellectual freedom—the freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be considered unorthodox or unpopular—provides the foundation for Banned Books Week. BBW stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints for all who wish to read and access them.

The books featured during Banned Books Week have been targets of attempted bannings. Fortunately, while some books were banned or restricted, in a majority of cases the books were not banned, all thanks to the efforts of librarians, teachers, booksellers, and members of the community to retain the books in the library collections. Imagine how many more books might be challenged—and possibly banned or restricted—if librarians, teachers, and booksellers across the country did not use Banned Books Week each year to teach the importance of our First Amendment rights and the power of literature, and to draw attention to the danger that exists when restraints are imposed on the availability of information in a free society."

We have accepted the challenge given by BITES to promote challenged and banned books during the month of September. To cap off the month, we are running a contest starting Sept. 26th and running through Oct. 6th the Banned Book Posting Challenge!

Rules:

The person who posts the most on this blog between 12 am cst Sept. 26 and 12 am cst Oct. 7th will win a copy of Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.

You can earn extra posts by doing the following:

+2 following us on Twitter

+2 for already being a follower of this blog

+1 for becoming a follower of this blog

+1 for posting about this contest on Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, your blog (+1 for each posting, please leave a link to the post in your comment, and if you tweet, include @PageTurnersBlog in your tweet)

+1 for posting a comment in this post

and a bonus! if we reach 100 followers here on the blog by the end of the contest, we'll also send the winner a copy of Where's Waldo! (yes this was on the ALA's 100 Most Frequently Challenged Book List)

Happy Posting!!!!!!!!!!!!