Thankfully, the district I work in has one and the process clearly states the first person a concerned parent must speak to is the school librarian! (We are trained in dealing with this!). Furthermore, every school district should have a library collection policy that speaks to book selection as well as the request to remove a book.

No one is ever forced to read a library book. As a high school librarian, it is my job to fight censorship on all levels and to work with those who feel a book should be removed from the library. Highly recommended.'Įven though the article states that the book was banned from the school library also, there is no mention of the role the librarian played in this. Readers will find themselves as unable to escape this tale as the characters themselves. In its original review of the book, Library Journal said, 'Gaiman's gift for mixing the absurd with the frightful give this novel the feeling of a bedtime story with adult sophistication. It was recently broadcast as a radio play for the BBC's Radio 4. Neil Gaiman OctoGaiman originally wrote Neverwhere as a BBC TV series, which aired in 1996, and adapted it the following year into a novel. Is anyone fighting back? RT an update regarding 'NeverWhere'. After hearing news of the ban, author Gaiman asked on Twitter: 'Is anyone fighting back?' Neverwhere banned in alamogordo nm.

According to KRQE, this is the first complaint that Alamogordo school officials have gotten about the book since it was added to the school’s curriculum in 2004. The mother said she was shocked that her daughter was asked to read the book, and her complaints last week to the school board led to its removal, KRQE reported.

Neil Gaiman's dark urban fantasy novel Neverwhere has been removed from both the school library and the required reading list at Alamogordo (NM) High School this week following the complaint of one parent, who objected to its sexual innuendos and 'harsh' language, according to a report by New Mexico's local KRQE news station.

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