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A14 PEOPLE & ARTS
Monday 28 SepteMber 2020
Alexie, Pilkey books among most 'challenged' of past decade

By HILLEL ITALIE "The Hunger Games," which
AP National Writer has been accused of being
NEW YORK (AP) — Toni Mor- anti-family and promoting
rison is on the list. So are violence. Others included
John Green and Harper were Atwood's Dystopian
Lee. And John Steinbeck classic "The Handmaid's
and Margaret Atwood. Tale," Steinbeck's "Of Mice
All wrote books that were and Men" and J.D. Salin-
among the 100 most sub- ger's "The Catcher in the
jected to censorship efforts Rye."
over the past decade, as Most of the books are fic-
compiled by the American tion, but the list also in-
Library Association. cludes such nonfiction
Sherman Alexie's prize-win- works as Jeanette Walls'
ning "The Absolutely True memoir about growing
Diary of a Part-Time Indian" up with dysfunctional par-
came in at No. 1, followed ents, "The Glass Castle,"
by Dav Pilkey's "Captain and "Anne Frank: Diary of
Underpants" picture book a Young Girl," which has
series and Jay Asher's faced challenges for the
young adult novel "Thirteen Jewish girl's emerging sex-
Reasons Why." Objections ual feelings and physical
raised by parents and other changes as she and her
community members have family hide from the Nazis
ranged from explicit lan- in Amsterdam during World
guage and depictions of In this Oct. 10, 2016 file photo, author and filmmaker Sherman Alexie appears at a celebration of War II. Frank was 15 when
Indigenous Peoples' Day at Seattle's City Hall.
drug use in Alexie's novel to Associated Press she was captured in 1944,
Asher's theme of suicide. and she died in a concen-
"A lot of the books on the ter Parnell's picture book cle's "Internet Girls" series. reported. The association tration camp the following
list also reflect a growing about two gay penguins, As with its yearly snapshots does not formally count the year.
trend in recent years to "And Tango Makes Three." of most challenged books, number of times books are "There are actually two lines
challenge books by people The list was announced the ALA defines a "chal- actually removed from a li- of objections to the Anne
of color and books from the Monday as the library as- lenge" as a "formal, writ- brary shelf or from a school Frank diary," Caldwell-
LGBTQ community," says sociation prepares to mark ten complaint filed with a reading list. Stone says. "One line is
Deborah Caldwell-Stone, its annual Banned Books library or school requesting The decade list overall is about her physical attrac-
director of the library as- Week. that materials be removed a mixture of old standards tion to a boy (Peter Schiff,
sociation's Office for Intel- Green's debut novel, because of content or such as Lee's "To Kill a Mock- whom she met in school)
lectual Freedom. Examples "Looking for Alaska," was appropriateness." The list ingbird" and Mark Twain's and there were also objec-
include Morrison's "The Blu- ranked fourth, with others is based on news reports "The Adventures of Huckle- tions that it was inappropri-
est Eye," about a Black girl in the top 10 including E.L. and on accounts submit- berry Finn" and more recent ate for someone 12 years
raped by her father; Alex James' explicit blockbuster ted from libraries and oth- works such as Stephen Ch- old to learn about the Holo-
Gino's "George," about "50 Shades of Grey," Raina ers in the local community, bosky's "The Perks of Being caust. It was too much of a
a transgender child; and Telgemeier's graphic novel although the ALA believes a Wallflower" and Suzanne downer. It was not uplifting
Justin Richardson's and Pe- "Drama" and Lauren Myra- many challenges go un- Collins' multimillion selling to young people."q

Sculpture of John Paul II with rock, red water makes waves

and revived memories of a The artist, the creator of artist Maurizio Cattelan's
1999 Italian sculpture that many works dealing with sculpture that showed the
showed him crushed under the Catholic faith and pope as "feeble old man"
a meteorite, to which the church, said he also want- pinned to the ground by a
new work was intended as ed to send a "warning huge meteorite.
a counter-statement. against multiplying forms of Cattelan's work, which
The statue by Polish art- red revolution" and encour- was displayed in Warsaw
ist Jerzy Kalina, titled "Poi- age the return to the "clear in 2000, was seen as disre-
soned Well," was inaugu- well." He was apparently spectful and provoked a
rated Thursday in front of referring to the weakening huge outcry. q
Warsaw's National Museum of faith and religion in Po-
to mark 100 years since the land. Solution Sudoku
much-loved pope's birth on But some critics associated
May 18, 1920. the art work with blood and
Kalina, 76, said the installa- violence. The sculpture also
Visitors to the National Museum walk past a new statue of the tion in the museum's foun- drew ridicule on social me-
late pope, St. John Paul II, throwing a stone at a "Poisoned Well" tain relates to John Paul II's dia, with some commenters
just hours before its official inauguration in the museum yard in efforts in the 1980s to help comparing the life-sized
Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. free Poland from commu- likeness of the canonized
Associated Press nism, which is symbolized pope toting a rock to a
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA the late pope St. John Paul by the red color the wa- cartoon figure.
Associated Press II throwing a boulder into ter has from a red fabric The museum said the instal-
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — red water has provoked placed on the fountain's lation was Kalin's response
A new statue that depicts debate in his native Poland bottom. to "La Nona Ora," Italian Puzzle on Page 13