ALA Council Posting Mistaken on Alleged Banned Book List of Governor Palin
E-mails from ALA Council Discussion List regarding the list of books Sarah Palin supposedly asked to be banned are reposted below. The list as posted by Sue Kamm has been dis-credited.
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Our friends at Snopes.com have also detemined the list not to be true: http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/bannedbooks.asp
Pam
Pamela C. Sieving, MA, MS, AHIP
RUSA Councilor
Biomedical Librarian/Informationist
National Institutes of Health Library
10 Center Drive room 1L09G msc 1150
Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1150 USA
301 451-5862 phone 301 402-0254 fax
pamsieving@nih.gov
nihlibrary.nih.gov
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Amazing Research. Amazing Help
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From: Charlotte Glover [mailto:charg@firstcitylibraries.org]
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 11:27 PM
To: suekamm@mindspring.com
Cc: ALA Council list
Subject: [alacoun] Re: FW: Fwd: is the list accurate?
For one thing, "Fallen Angels" was published in 1998..I just checked the date again....two years after Palin took office. That was one clue we had earlier this week that the list was false.
Charlotte
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Charlotte Glover wrote:
Hello All-
I am absolutely certain that this list is false. I know that Mary Ellen has not made any statements to the press as she returns to work tomorrow after a vacation. Also, there is no public record in the Wasilla press or in Wasilla City Council minutes of exact titles as far as anyone has found. People in Alaska and the Seattle Times have been checking the archives. Excellent article about a journalist going through the original sources in one of the weekend Seattle Times. My husband found it on-line for me and it's called something like "Palin had turbulent first year in Wasilla". I am afraid that Mary Ellen and Sarah Palin may be the only people who know for certain what books were discussed. As soon as I know anything for sure, I will share it with you.
Best,
Charlotte Glover
ALA Chapter Councilor for Alaska
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On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Sue Kamm wrote:
Forwarded at the request of Ruth Gordon, Councilor-at-Large Emerita. Most of these have been listed in OIF's Banned Books Week kits.
I agree with Dr. Gordon - why ban My Friend Flicka?
----- Original In the world of the right wing, you can sort of understand why some of these books are on the list, but "My Friend Flicka?" I read that as a child, and remember it as a horse story. What am I missing?
>> Subject: Palin the book-banner
>> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 19:27:57 -0400
>>
>> Here is a list of books that Sarah Palin tried to have banned from
>> the Wasilla Public Library, according to the official minutes of
>> the Library Board. When she was unsuccessful at having these books
>> banned, she tried to have the Librarian fired.
>>
>> As many of you will notice, it is a hit parade for book burners.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Geof frey Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice B urroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwoo d
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster
Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth
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>> Courtesy of R. Matter
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Our friends at Snopes.com have also detemined the list not to be true: http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/bannedbooks.asp
Pam
Pamela C. Sieving, MA, MS, AHIP
RUSA Councilor
Biomedical Librarian/Informationist
National Institutes of Health Library
10 Center Drive room 1L09G msc 1150
Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1150 USA
301 451-5862 phone 301 402-0254 fax
pamsieving@nih.gov
nihlibrary.nih.gov
--------
Amazing Research. Amazing Help
===================
From: Charlotte Glover [mailto:charg@firstcitylibraries.org]
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 11:27 PM
To: suekamm@mindspring.com
Cc: ALA Council list
Subject: [alacoun] Re: FW: Fwd: is the list accurate?
For one thing, "Fallen Angels" was published in 1998..I just checked the date again....two years after Palin took office. That was one clue we had earlier this week that the list was false.
Charlotte
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Charlotte Glover
Hello All-
I am absolutely certain that this list is false. I know that Mary Ellen has not made any statements to the press as she returns to work tomorrow after a vacation. Also, there is no public record in the Wasilla press or in Wasilla City Council minutes of exact titles as far as anyone has found. People in Alaska and the Seattle Times have been checking the archives. Excellent article about a journalist going through the original sources in one of the weekend Seattle Times. My husband found it on-line for me and it's called something like "Palin had turbulent first year in Wasilla". I am afraid that Mary Ellen and Sarah Palin may be the only people who know for certain what books were discussed. As soon as I know anything for sure, I will share it with you.
Best,
Charlotte Glover
ALA Chapter Councilor for Alaska
===================
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Sue Kamm
Forwarded at the request of Ruth Gordon, Councilor-at-Large Emerita. Most of these have been listed in OIF's Banned Books Week kits.
I agree with Dr. Gordon - why ban My Friend Flicka?
----- Original In the world of the right wing, you can sort of understand why some of these books are on the list, but "My Friend Flicka?" I read that as a child, and remember it as a horse story. What am I missing?
>> Subject: Palin the book-banner
>> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 19:27:57 -0400
>>
>> Here is a list of books that Sarah Palin tried to have banned from
>> the Wasilla Public Library, according to the official minutes of
>> the Library Board. When she was unsuccessful at having these books
>> banned, she tried to have the Librarian fired.
>>
>> As many of you will notice, it is a hit parade for book burners.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Geof frey Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice B urroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwoo d
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster
Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth
>>
>> ###
>> Courtesy of R. Matter
> _________
posted by Librarian at 8:20 AM
