Censorship Update
Tags: CENSORSHIP; IT'S Perfectly Normal: A Book About Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex & Sexual Health (Book)
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- Fargo PL rejects book ban attempt. Rogers, Michael; St. Lifer, Evan // Library Journal;11/15/1997, Vol. 122 Issue 19, p14
Reports that the Fargo (N.D.) Public Library has resisted attempts to remove or reclassify Robie Harris' `It's Perfectly Normal.' Board's acceptance of the recommendation of the library's materials selection committee; Failure of objectors to attend the board meeting.
- CENSORSHIP WATCH. B.G. // American Libraries;Oct2002, Vol. 33 Issue 9, p21
Discusses censorship issues in the U.S. Compromise reached by the Webb City School District in Missouri about whether a series of books that uses an adolescent girl named Alice to explore the issues of growth, development, and sexuality should remain available to 5th- and 6th-grade students in...
- Censorship Roundup. // School Library Journal;Oct2002, Vol. 48 Issue 10, p26
Presents updates on book censorship in the U.S. as of October 1, 2002. Decision of the Montgomery County commissioners to remove the sex education book 'It's Perfectly Normal,' by Robie Harris from county library shelves; Response of the Cromwell Board of Education Program Committee to the...
- CENSORSHIP WATCH. Goldberg, Beverly // American Libraries;Nov2001, Vol. 32 Issue 10, p23
Mentions censorship in schools and libraries. Restricted access to the Robie Harris sex-education book 'It's Perfectly Normal' to children with parents' permission in Anchorage, Alaska; Ban on Internet filters on public-access computers at San Francisco, California libraries; View of Robert S....
- Texans Go 'Mainstream' to Back Beset Library. B.G. // American Libraries;Nov2002, Vol. 33 Issue 10, p22
Reports that people who were angered by the removal of the sex-education books 'It's Perfectly Normal' and 'It's Absolutely Amazing' from the Montgomery County Library System in Texas have formed a grassroots organization called Mainstream Montgomery County. Number of people in support of the...
- TX Librarian Wins Free Speech Award. Ishizuka, Kathy // School Library Journal;May2003, Vol. 49 Issue 5, p19
Reports that the PEN American Center awarded the Montgomery County, Texas Library director Jerilynn Williams the 2003 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award for her efforts to block a plan to ban two children's books from the library's shelves. Financial prize; Efforts of Williams to call for a...
- Book & tape review. // Total Health;Oct94, Vol. 16 Issue 5, p53
Reviews the book `It's Perfectly Normal,' by Robie Harris and illustrated by Michael Emberley.
- Forecasts: Children's Books. Devereaux, Elizabeth; Roback, Diane // Publishers Weekly;7/18/94, Vol. 241 Issue 29, p248
Reviews the book `It's Perfectly Normal: A Book About Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health,' by Robie H. Harris, illustrated by Michael Emberley.
- Nonfiction. // Publishers Weekly;11/7/1994, Vol. 241 Issue 45, p44
Reviews the book `It's Perfectly Normal,' by Robie Harris, illustrated by Michael Emberley.
