A court case questions whether library patrons deserve privacy even if they request a book be banned
A boy reaches for a book on the top shelf in the Children’s section of the Tattered Cover Book Store on Colfax Avenue in Denver on June 11, 2016. There has been an increase in the number of requests at Colorado Public Libraries for books to be removed or reclassified. January 27, 2023 at 6:03 a.m.
The former is a celebratory picture-book history of the gay pride movement intended for children 4 to 8 years old contested for age appropriateness. The latter contains a poem written from the vantage point of a naive English child who muses about children around the world yearning to trade places. The prose winks with irony, for it is the British child who appears captivated by the exotic life of “foreign children.” Nonetheless, someone found the cultural comparisons insensitive.
These issues are at the center of a recent petition to the Colorado Court of Appeals. Last year, Gunnison County District Court Judge J.
Sometimes there are logical reasons for questioning a book’s presence on a library shelf. While you will find serious works like “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini, or “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, as well as harmless schmaltz like Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” series on the American Library Association’s yearly lists of contested books, the vast majority of challenged books contain sexually explicit content inappropriate for children and teens.
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