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By talking about it with our students they come to realize what a slippery slope challenging, censoring and banning books really is. This is only one example of how picture books have been censored in our area so don’t be embarrassed that you missed it. It was so well done that you couldn’t even tell. She was sure the book in her school didn’t look like the one she was reading and sure enough, when she checked it out back at her school, she was right – someone and drawn underwear on the boy. Our local bookstore was celebrating Sendak’s body of work and this prompted the teacher-librarian to take a look at a new copy of In the Night Kitchen. One of our local elementary teacher-librarians found the same censored version of this book in her school library the same year Maurice passed away. I’ve been teaching a challenged book unit for a few years now and one of the examples I show my grade 9 students about censorship is Maurice Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen. Secondly that it’s been sitting there censored under my nose for years (we’ve had this book since 1978 – it could have happened at any time) and I didn’t know. So why is this sort of embarrassing? Firstly, that I haven’t opened our library copy of this book. With that in mind, I decided to take a look at our copy. I had learned in library school that some librarians had infamously painted diapers on Mickey to avoid controversy. Horning wrote about it in her 2012 article The Naked Truth: Librarians Stood by Maurice Sendak, No Stranger to Controversy for School Library Journal. You also know Maurice Sendak’s 1971 Caldecott Honor winner has a controversial history due to the main character’s nudity. Now, if you know anything about the book, you probably know where this story is going. I’ve done it a million times before, but for some reason this time my eyes landed on our copy of In the Night Kitchen, and I had a thought. I was in the stacks when I passed by our Maurice Sendak section.
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