Banned books are trending on social media and in the news. Parent groups concerned about the content in books stage protests and overrun school and library board meetings. If you’re not a reader and want to know what this banned book whoopla is all about, have I got a surprise for you.
Many banned books have been made into movies!
Common refrains from book banners are, “Books should have a rating system, like movies” and “Books for adults should be kept separate from books for children.”
Both of those things already happen! Books are rated and organized according to age-appropriateness and reading level. There’s no way a child perusing picture books would accidently stumble across a western, a romance, or even a Christian fiction novel because they are all shelved in different parts of the library.
But my question to book banners is, “If the books are so bad, how come no one is trying to ban the movie?”