Picture Books
This book was primarily banned in most southern states immediately following its publication, and it has since been challenged due to the fact that it promotes “witchcraft and supernatural events.”
What is "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak?
This book was previously banned by several schools in the United States because it was “too depressing.”
What is "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank?
This book was banned because it contains "offensive language" that is unsuited to the series' targeted age group of elementary-school children?
What is "Captain Underpants" by Dav Pilkey?
A Colorado library banned the book because it embraced a “poor philosophy of life.”
What is "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl?
This is a favorite childhood book that was banned from a public library in Colorado because it was considered one gender over the other.
What is "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein?
The Texas State Board of Education briefly banned this picture book after confusing its author, Bill Martin, Jr., with philosopher Bill Martin, author of ‘Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation.'
What is "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" by Bill Martin, Jr. and Eric Carle?
This book was banned from several classrooms in Pennsylvania on accounts of “profanity, disrespect for adults, and an elaborate fantasy world that might lead to confusion?”
What is "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson?
This is one of the top 10 most frequently challenged graphic novels in America because of violence
What is "Bone" by Jeff Smith?
This book was banned in parts of the U.S. because talking animals are somehow considered an “insult to god,” resulting in this book’s banning throughout random parts of the United States.
What is "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A.A. Milne?
This book was banned because it might encourage kids to break dishes so they won't have to dry them.
What is "A Light in the Attic" by Shel Silverstein?
This book was banned in China from 1965 to 1991
What is "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss?
This book was banned in 1985 at a Florida elementary school for promoting witchcraft, crystal balls, and demons.
What is "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle?
This book has been banned for being politically and socially offensive.
What is "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi?
A California school board wanted to censor the 1987 version of the book because her basket included an adult drink.
What is "Little Red Riding Hood"?
This book has been challenged by thousands of school institutions, most famously in the 1960s in fear that it would promote drug use to children.
What is "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carol?
This book was banned in 1989 in California for being too harsh on the logging industry.
What is "The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss?
This book series has been banned all over for promoting godless witchcraft.
What is "Harry Potter" by J. K. Rowling?
This book has been banned because there were concerns about the family values that it depicted
What is "Drama" by Raina Telgemeier?
This book was banned in all public libraries in Chicago because of its “ungodly” influence “for depicting women in strong leadership roles.”
What is "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum?
This book has been banned at least ten times in the late 1980s and early 1990s for things like “being too sophisticated” and “not teaching moral values.”
What is "The Witches" by Roald Dahl?
This book was banned because the police characters are portrayed as pigs.
What is "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble" by William Steig
This book has been challenged by Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.
What is "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C.S. Lewis?
This book was banned in a middle-school library in Millard, Nebraska for inappropriate content.
What is "The Amazing Spiderman" by J. Michael Straczynski?
This book was banned in Kansas because talking animals are considered an “insult to god."
What is "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White?
This book was banned due to allegations of racism and many objections to the description of the Native Americans in this book.
What is "Little House on the Prairie" by Laura Ingalls Wilder?