QUESTION OF THE WEEK #94
Scrota-nized
This Week's Question:
Susan Patron's children's book, Higher Power of Lucky, is this year's winner of the Newbery Medal, the most prestigious award in children’s literature.
However, many elementary school libraries have banned the book because it begins with the 10-year-old heroine hearing another person talk about watching a rattlesnake bite his dog's "scrotum."
Should elementary school libraries ban the book because of its inclusion of the word "scrotum"?
Labels: censorship, QOTW
