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Wow, im also doing this project too! I say that this book is excellent, and banning it kind of makes no sense to me.Reading Level: Lexile Measure 740L, Scholastic Guided Reading Level R Hey cathy i am a high school student also doin this project i have a question how come this book is banned and challenged thank you ? you can’t put it down until the end.Ĭhildren read roald dahl! it’s simple wow! they are fantastic, really!! the witches was my favourite so far. I didn’t like reading anything until i read roald dahl books. If you have any other questions, feel free to email me or talk to your local public librarian! I promise that most of us are not scary! You can also search the OIF website at įinally check your library and see if they have the book Banned Books 1999 Resource Guide: Free People Read Freely by Robert P Doyle. They handle all the challenges, and I think if you ask them, they might be able to answer some of your questions. You can contact The American Library Association directly at which is the Office of Intellectual Freedom. I also am a huge fan of Roald Dahl, “The BFG” being one of my absolute favorite of his…But my question to you is where could I find more formal info on why this particular book was challenged? I could of course assume that it’s mainly because of the fact that it has something to do with “witch craft” but I’d prefer to have definite facts and statements as to why it was…hope to hear back from you. It just so happens that “The Witches” is the book that I chose to research. Im a highschool student doing a project on challenged books. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.ħ Responses to “The Witches by Roald Dahl” You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. On Wednesday, September 28th, 2005 at 5:24 pm and is filed under Reading. Since this is my personal blog, I will say that I don’t think that there’s anything so horrible as using your imagination in order to allow you to be a more creative individual. Of course, if you don’t like the idea of magic, good or bad, you still won’t be pleased with this book. You really don’t feel any sympathy for the witches, in fact you really hope that the main characters do defeat the witches. Dahl also makes witches bad creatures that need to be disposed of. At the very beinning of the book, Dahl differentiates them from people by saying that they don’t have toes. Okay, so the book is called “Witches”, but the witches themselves aren’t even really human. Upon looking at the list of the most often challenged/banned books in America from 1990-2000, I saw that #27 was The Witches. I loved the BFG, and of course Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. I read Roald Dahl books when I was younger, but I didn’t realize how much I loved this man until I became an adult.
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