Mom wants to burn bunny book

[uppityperson]

http://www.amazon.com/Book-Bunny-Suicides-Andy-Riley/dp/0452285186
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The author also wrote Return of Bunny Suicides, Great Lies to Tell Small Kids, has calendars, etc. It reminds me of 101 uses for a dead cat, or even Uncle Shelby's ABZ,

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008290959_bunnysuicides21.html

One way or another, a Halsey woman promises to keep a popular cartoon book out of the Central Linn High School library. Taffey Anderson says "The Book of Bunny Suicides" is not appropriate for anyone, but especially children. She inspected the book her 13-year-old son checked out of the library, and what she saw convinced her to never return it.

The 2003 book by British author Andy Riley is a collection of cartoons showing a rabbit attempting to end his life in bizarre ways. Anderson's son told her he checked it out because his friends said it was funny. "It is a comic book, but that's not funny. Not at all," Anderson told the Albany Democrat-Herald newspaper. "I don't care if your kid is 16, 17, 18. It's wrong."
(clip, omg, save the 16 yr olds!)
Anderson contacted principal Julie Knoedler, who told her about the district's book-challenge policy. Anderson plans to fill out the forms, but she's not taking any chances. Once the review is over, regardless of the outcome, she plans to burn it. "They're not getting this book back," she said, adding that if the library replaces it: "I'll have somebody else check it out and I'll keep that one. I'm just disgusted by the whole ordeal."
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The book was on a young-adult reader list recommended by the American Library Association, she said, and she knows other school libraries in Oregon have purchased it....(more)

[Lyric]

1. I love that book!

I sent a copy to a friend in Britain for Christmas a few years ago, because he has the same weird sense of humor that I do.

*waves at Prophet*

[ACTION BASTARD]

19. I have 2 Bunny Suicide books.

This woman is a retard. That is all.

[uppityperson]

21. Make sure you have the crisis line phone number at hand.

I hadn't seen these before, now have to find one.

Edited to add, welcome to DU

[tularetom]

2. Sorry but I can't take anything somebody named "Taffey" says seriously

[uppityperson]

4. "I don't care if your kid is 16, 17, 18. It's wrong."

"It is a comic book, but that's not funny. Not at all," Anderson told the Albany Democrat-Herald newspaper. "I don't care if your kid is 16, 17, 18. It's wrong."

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. Uncle Shelby's ABZs by Shel Silverstein is a favorite book of mine! I think I was in my early 20s

when I bought it.

BTW... I wonder if this woman who wants the bunny book burned is a CariBoo Barbie fan, and if so, how does she feel about massacring wolves from planes?

[uppityperson]

6. I grew up with ABZ, finally as an adult reread it and laughed even more

The dedication, to all those children who kept him awake... And then finding out it was Shel Silverstein was even better. E is for Egg.

Edited to add info for people who don't know about this gem.


http://www.amazon.com/Uncle-Shelbys-ABZ-Book-Primer/dp/067121148X
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B is for baby

See the baby

The baby is fat

The baby is pink

The baby can cry

The baby can laugh

See the baby play

Play, baby, play.

Pretty, pretty, baby.

Mommy loves the baby more than she loves you.

[juno jones]

11. I LOVE ABZ!

made my day thinking about it. Especially M is for Money...:)

[Solly Mack]

5. Someone needs to send her the Happy Tree Friends

What a silly little nobody

[Quantess]

14. Now THAT is sick.

I couldn't watch Happy Tree Friends. I would rather watch SAW movies one after another.

[Solly Mack]

16. I saw a part of one and that was enough for me. More than enough

I don't watch the "SAW" movies either. Dunno...as I've gotten older I've liked gore less and less

[Quantess]

17. That was kind of my point. I watched SAW #1 and I never want to see another.

Happy Tree Friends is even more nauseating, IMO.

[SmokingJacket]

7. It's kind of a dumb book...

I don't get why it's on a list of recommendations put out by the ALA -- I guess they think it'll draw in "reluctant readers" or something.

Still, that woman has no right to censor other people's children...

[sharp_stick]

8. I wonder if she knows that

she's paying for the book if/when she doesn't return it. Her credit record may well reflect the non-payment of fines especially if they accumulate and I hope it costs her a couple of points on her next loan.

Gotta save those poor impressionable 16 year olds. This kind of reminds me of the father who's teenage kids were "accidentally" exposed to naked pictures in a library while they were researching military recruitment. Poor poor babies had no idea what was going on.

[uppityperson]

10. The story does talk about other teens committing suicide after reading this book

makes me wonder how they fit into the toaster ("And in Shanghai, China, a bookseller pulled it last month after reports that several children had attempted suicide, with at least one boy dying.").

In reality, having had a near suicidal teen, a book like this won't drive anyone to suicide but seems a way to open up communications, talking about suicide issues with people. It seems rather like the logic behind not telling teens about contraception because then they won't be sexually active.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. So she's a thief, as well as a book burner

from the shallow end of the gene pool.

[Parche]

12. Only Hoppy People Read This Book

:woohoo: :hi:

[pipi_k]

13. Hmmm...let's see now

a rabbit thinks up interesting ways to do away with himself

vs

The Bible...a book in which people commit murder, adultery and incest, a Super "daddy figure" kills off his "kids" in various ways for being naughty, and all sorts of other disgusting things happen


yep

suicidal bunnies are waaaaay more dangerous to kids....


:sarcasm:



that woman is the worst kind of idiot there is. And she's probably even more dangerous to children than suicidal bunnies and Biblical nonsense could ever be

[MilesColtrane]

15. My mom also wasn't too happy about the bunny books I was checking out when I was 13.

But, she never threatened to burn them.

[uppityperson]

18. Bad boy, sonny.

:rofl:

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

20. Ahh, teenage memories. Barbi Benton. Sigh... n/t

[ThoughtCriminal]

22. When "Happy Bunny" merchandise showed up in Walmart

I knew some kind of era was over.

[petronius]

23. Stealing books is an "ordeal"? It must be so difficult being a

self-righteous ass. That said, what need have we for emo bunnies when we already have Gorey?

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