‘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.

Calvin reading book and raising eyebrow

  • katy ✨English
    25•15 hours ago

    they did it against bill’s wishes, who hated commercialisation.

    • @LilB0kChoy@midwest.socialEnglish
      4•12 hours ago

      Yes, but Bill Waterson was even more reserved than that. I read his biography which was written without his input because he repeatedly refused a request to be interviewed for it.

      He never merchandised Calvin & Hobbes and never licensed it to others. Whenever I hear “reclusive genius” I always think of Bill Waterson.