Books in the Harry Potter series also were the most frequently challenged of the 21st century. The ALA reports there were more than 3,000 attempts to remove books from schools and public libraries between 2000 and 2005. Challenges are defined as formal, written complaints filed with a library or school requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness. According to Judith F. Krug, director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom, the number of challenges reflects only incidents reported, and for each reported, four or five remain unreported.
What I don't get is something else in the article about other banned books. It says the Captain Underpants series is also on the most banned list. What is allegedly so bad about the Captain Underpants books??
The name?
BTW, I had a dream the other day where I managed to get a copy of the next Harry Potter book. It was a very vivid full color dream. I remember holding the book, and its colors and liking the art and title.
Sadly, it must have been bewitched as I can't remember the graphics or the title...
Bad link.
Your link isn't working. However, I noticed that the quote says "challenged," while you wrote "banned." That is not the same thing, although it's the conclusion to which liberals hope you will leap.
If you'll check the article at the link, we can find out whether it says any of the challenged books were actually removed from facilities. I doubt they were.
As I expected, there is nothing to indicate that any of these books was actually "banned" from anywhere. The ALA (so liberal that they make the NEA look like the Constitutuion Party) is deliberately obscuring the reality.
My daughter had a couple. They're awful. IMHO they're horribly written pieces of sophomoric drivel.
Listening to a bunch of kids play Row Row Row Your Boat with their armpits would be funnier.