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KidPop News: Sanitized Twain, Hazardous Nintendo and Bawdy Kids' Shows

by Christopher Healy, Posted Jan 7th 2011 11:00AM

Amazon Huck Finn Gets Politically Correct In a move that has already begun to stir up rafts of controversy, publisher NewSouth Books announced that, in February, it will release a new edition of Mark Twain's classic "The Adventures ...Get the latest news from the world of children's entertainment.
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Parent (Bleep)ing Mad Over Homework With Bad Words

by Tom Henderson, Posted Nov 12th 2010 1:30PM

Connecticut parents are outraged when offensive words appear on their kids' homework. Credit: Getty Images You might say a parent in Greenwich, Conn., is (bleep)ing mad and thinks local school officials ought to ...Homework on controversial literature proves, uh, controversial.
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Boy Gives Up Sexy Backpack After Principal Gets Excited ... That Is, 'Upset'

by Tom Henderson, Posted Nov 9th 2010 8:00AM

Is this backpack too crass for class? Credit: District School Board of Pasco County
A variety of colorful and popular characters appear on children's backpacks. You have your Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. You have Dora the Explorer. You have ...Whoever that is on his backpack, it's not Dora the Explorer.
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Mom Turns Library Scofflaw to Prevent Kids from Reading 'Gossip Girl' Series

by Amy Hatch, Posted May 7th 2010 1:00PM

Tina Harden, a Florida mom, says the books on which the Gossip Girl and It Girl series are based are inappropriate for teens. Credit: Jacob Langston, Orlando Sentinel / MCT
Tina Harden's teenage daughter checked out four books from Seminole ...
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Student Journalists Yell 'Stop The Press' on Principle (and at Principal)

by Tom Henderson, Posted Mar 15th 2010 6:30PM

Schools have the legal right to censor content. Courtesy of The Viewer
Stop the presses. Literally. Students at Mounds View High School in Minnesota are refusing to put out a school paper if Principal Julie Wikelius insists on approving each ...
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South Dakota Middle Schools Pull Graphic Novel

by Amy Hatch, Posted Dec 7th 2009 12:30PM

Credit: Amazon
A school board in South Dakota voted to pull a graphic novel targeted at middle-schoolers from its library shelves, giving teachers access to the book but not students.
Students at two Sioux Falls, S.D. middle schools will no ...
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Crossing Guard's Funny Hats Land Him in Hot Water

by Susan Wagner, Posted Feb 27th 2009 10:00AM

Crossing guard Larry Douthwaite has been keeping kids in Littlestown, PA, safe for 15 years. And for most of that time, he's been wearing one of his collection of crazy hats to work each day. The hats -- a flowerpot, an ear of corn and the like -- ...
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Uncle Bobby under fire again

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Aug 23rd 2008 6:00PM

Colorado librarian James LaRue has gotten another challenge to Uncle Bobby's Wedding, the book about a little girl guinea pig's concerns that her uncle won't play with her after he gets married. The idea is simple enough -- Young Chloe loves her ...
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Move over, Tango, Uncle Bobby's here

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jul 16th 2008 4:02PM

For two years straight, And Tango Makes Three was the top most challenged library book, according to the American Library Association. This year, however, another book might just take that dubious honor away. Uncle Bobby's Wedding is a story of a ...
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Censorship in toys

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Jul 6th 2008 1:00PM

About a month ago my husband was playing around with one of our son's toys and realized it was censored. The toy in question is a Leap Frog brand caterpillar called an Alphabet Pal with letters on each of its twenty-six legs. Among the things you ...
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Mike Mulligan smokes and other bad habits kids learn from books

by Christina Sbarro, Posted Apr 29th 2008 9:05AM

"Mommy, Mike Mulligan smokes a pipe," my three year old son told me the other day while we were digging in the garden. I knew right away what he was talking about: we'd been out for pizza the night before, and on the way to the car he was gleefully ...
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Last tango in Bristol

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Apr 14th 2008 10:33AM

It's happening again, this time in England -- two elementary schools have removed And Tango Makes Three and King & King after parents complained about the books. King & King tells the story of a prince who falls in love with another prince. ...
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Are the MPAA's screwed up?

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Jan 3rd 2008 8:27PM

Been to the movies lately? My guess is that, if you did, the film was either animated and/or part of the Disney franchise, one that was full of violence and/or gore, or one that was full of sex. That's basically because most movies out there, at ...
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Teenager censors school library

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Sep 14th 2007 3:00PM

I think it's great when kids check books out of the library. It gives them a chance to explore new genres of literature to which they might not otherwise be exposed. Apparently, that's exactly what happened to fifteen-year-old Lysa Harding of ...
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School officials black out gay student's yearbook photo

by Sandy Maple, Posted Jun 27th 2007 5:02PM

I remember each year when the school yearbook would come out, the first thing we did was flip furiously through the pages of our books looking for candid shots of ourselves. Everyone gets the required, posed photo in the book, but having your photo ...
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