National Hispanic Heritage Month and Banned Book Week

 

(Left) The roof after Hurricane Beta. (Right) The roof now. My husband decided to do the repair himself. I couldn't watch, but he did a fabulous job, I think.

I read for a couple of challenges this week.

For National Hispanic Heritage Month, I read With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo.

For The 1956 Club, I read The Silver Sword, one of the 1001 Children's Books You Must Read, first published in 1956. 

And for Banned Book Week, I read two children's picture books:

Little Red Riding Hood, written and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, and

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, written and illustrated by William Steig.

Don't tell me what books I can and cannot read. 

Why was Little Red Riding Hood by Trina Schart Hyman banned? School officials in Culver City, California banned it because Little Red Riding Hood is carrying a bottle of wine in her basket to take to her sick grandmother. Yes. For goodness sake.

And Sylvester and the Magic Pebble? Police associations in twelve states asked librarians to ban the book because the book uses pigs as police. Gracious alive, people. 

Here's a list of the 100 most challenged books of the decade in the US.

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy...80% read

Devotions by Mary Oliver...70% read

How to Draw Your Beautiful Ordinary Life...52% read

I found the Internet Archive this week. I was astonished to find many of the books on my 1001 Children's Books You Must Read list at the Internet Archive. I will be returning here soon.

1. Potentially a big pecan year.

2. Doors I see when I walk each morning.

3. Optimistic October Calendar.

I'm happy you found your way to the Sunday Salon. Sunday Salon is a place for us to link up and to share what we have been doing during the week. It's a great way to visit other blogs and join in the conversations going on there. 

Some of the things we often talk about at the Sunday Salon:

• What was your week like?
• Read any good books? Tell us about them.
• What other bookish things did you do? 
• What else is going on in your life?

Other places where you may like to link up over the weekend are below. Click on the picture to visit the site.

My linkup for Sunday Salon is below.