‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans - PEN America
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The removals in Tennessee are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning.

Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne, children’s poet Shel Silverstein and Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson have joined Judy Blume, Sarah J. Maas, Eric Carle and Kurt Vonnegut on a mind-boggling list of hundreds of books purged from some Tennessee school libraries.

  • @Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
    34•17 hours ago

    children’s poet Shel Silverstein

    What? Is that the same Shel Silverstein as 2 time Grammy winning, Johnny Cash swongwriter, Academy awards and Golden Globe nominee, and Playboy Cartoonist, also prolific one act playwright, Shel Silverstein?

    The answer is yes.
    I just think he needs someone to shout out his other works in here in case you didn’t know.

    • lemonazEnglish
      9•15 hours ago

      I’m 1000% sure they banned Shel because of “A Boy Named Sue” which they probably thought was about trans kids.

      • @Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
        6•14 hours ago

        Hard KeK and quite possibly the right answer.
        I figured it was Tatooin Ruth who literally is nude except for his tattoos or all the other butts he drew in his comics.