The Kurt Vonnegut Museum has pledged to donate 1,000 copies of 'Slaughterhouse-Five' after groups have worked to ban the books in Florida.
INDIANAPOLIS — The Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library is pushing back against a group's effort to restrict access to the author's novel"Slaughterhouse-Five" from a Florida school district. So it goes."Slaughterhouse-Five" is a science fiction novel. A fictionalized telling of Vonnegut's experience as a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany in World War II. The book has a strong anti-war message.
As groups work to ban the book, Whitehead is taking the opportunity to share the book and wants to chat with the groups. .@Moms4Liberty successfully got Slaughterhouse-Five banned in a school district in Florida. So it goes. In a May 20 Facebook post, the group claims its efforts were not about banning books, but challenging their age appropriateness."All we want is for content that violates child obscenity laws to be removed from SCHOOL libraries, and for the books that are not found to violate those laws to require some form of consent from parents that would provide more transparency as to the subjects contained within the text," the post states.
Hall claimed the book is available in some middle school libraries and said children as young as 12 should not be able to access it without parental knowledge or consent.
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