School board votes 8-0 to remove Adam Rex's The Dirty Cowboy from elementary school libraries.

From the article:

The Annville-Cleona School Board on Thursday voted to remove an award-winning children's book from its elementary schools after a student's parents objected to some of the book's illustrations.

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The illustrator cleverly uses various items, such as birds and a boot, to cover the boy's genitals while he is bathing and then while he is attempting to get his clothes back.

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"They were asked what do you feel might be the result of viewing or reading this material, and their answer was, 'Children may come to the conclusion that looking at nudity is OK, and therefore pornography is OK,'" he said.

Well, GOSH. If that's the case, I hope that students in the Annville-Cleona school district are never subjected to the horror of a field trip to an art museum.

Comments

[Katie]

Yeah because nudity and pornography are THE EXACT SAME THING.
Oy.

[Karen]

Ouch, my brain hurts from the stupid. That book is cute and funny!

[Robin]

Oh, my! Do they wear their clothes while bathing in that school district?

[Jennifer]

The stupidity of this is so...stupid. Hmmm, my library doesn't own this title *adds to next order list*

[The Diamond in the Window]

When you are naked in the bathtub DON'T LOOK DOWN! YOU WILL SEE...NUDITY!

[Melissa]

I just noticed that this was illustrated by Adam Rex. His books will be the ones of my kids' books that I keep - Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich, Psst!, and the not-as-good Frankenstein Takes the Cake. I can't imagine any of his images being pornography. Subversive, sure, I can see that.

Why do I suppose that the Glen Beck books are A-OK for that district library? Is that because I'm a cynical human being?

sigh. I'll head back to my wine (whine?) now.

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