September 21, 2025
From the time it was published in 1947 until 1972, Goodnight Moon was banned from the New York Public Library because a retired chief librarian, who still exerted much influence, personally did not like it.
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11 Banned Books Through Time
There are plenty of reasons why a book might be banned. It may subvert a popular belief of a dominating culture, shock an audience with grotesque, sexual, or obscene language, or be thought to promote strife within a society. Whatever the reason, once a book is banned, a sort of aura of mystique is
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