Despite the best intentions of authors and publishers, every year books are banned by councils and districts around the world. What follows is a list of some of those titles. It is by no means comprehensive.
*Sir Shagalot and his Naughty Horse
Farting – A Beginner’s Guide
Fun with Knives
How to Hotwire a Car and Other Church Camp Favourites
The Little Adventurers’ Scratch and Sniff Guide to Road Kill
Mud can be your Friend
My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad
Fun with Ladders
101 Uses for Model Glue
Don’t Tell Mom – How to Keep Secrets for Your Father
The Uncle Larry is an Alcoholic who lives in a Garage and Smells of Urine Picture Book
Fun with Fire
I’m Going to Meet My Biological Father for the First Time! – A Beginner’s Guide to Hitchhiking
Why isn’t Aunt Trudy Married and Who is that Woman Living With her? – A Little World of Wonder Book
Mrs. Appletree’s Tubal Ligation – A Junior Biologist Pop-Up Book
How Children can Improve There Spelling
Fun with Bodies of Deep Water
How to Climb up a Chimney in Ten Easy Steps
Peeing the Bed – Fifty Reasons Why You’re a Complete Freak
*The only book to be banned due to its title alone, without staff having read it. This is unfortunate, because it is a delightful book about a medieval shag carpet salesman whose mischievous horse keeps eating the carpet samples before he can make a sale.
Trapped on a rock floating in space 