Book banning is unintelligible from thedailycougar.com by The Daily Cougar

Book banning is rarely done on the basis of logic or thoughtful consideration, but more so on ignorance and prejudice. When books are banned for absurd reasons such as pro-communism in George Orwell’s “1984” or pro-racism in Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” — the exact opposite of what these books advocate — you’re left wondering if some people have even read the books they challenge. It seems that question is answered by The Texas Board of Education when they banned the children’s picture book “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” by Bill Martin, a book that helps toddlers learn about colors and associate meaning to them.

Read The Daily Cougar piece here. See also: Nineteen Eighty-Four

Book banning still prevalent in the U.S. from Signal & Urbanite RSS

According to the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, there have been 11,000 challenges since 1990 and three out of four of these challenges were aimed at schools or school libraries. In 2009 alone, 460 challenges were reported.
Though this may not seem like such a large number, considering the infinite amount of books and resources in the world, no one should be able to choose what is appropriate to read and what is not.
Understandably, some parents would want to censor the material their children would read, since it could lead to many untrained thoughts.
Plus, on many occasions, parents may not realize what exactly their child is reading. They would assume that it's fine since reading is scholarly and they would think nothing about the possibility of any hidden outrageous content.

Who cites the Huffington Post? Anyway, check out the GS University piece here. See also: You Can't Read This!: Why Books Get Banned (Pop Culture Revolutions), BANNED! An Anthology of Banned Books (14 books), Banned in the U.S.A.: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries Revised and Expanded Edition

Book Bans and Challenges, 2007-2010 (courtesy of http://bannedbooksweek.org)

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Twitter: Banned Books' New Best Friend from NYT > Books by By LELA MOORE

It's Banned Books Week, and for an event like this, it never hurts to have a cause celebre. This year, organizers had only to turn to Twitter, where people have been rallying behind the young-adult author Laurie Halse Anderson, whose novel "Speak" has found itself at the center of a heated censorship debate. - read the NYT article here.

You all must have heard by now; it's all about #speakloudly on Twitter, and the crusade against the censorship of the mentioned book.

Become Shelf Aware During Banned Books Week from Seattlest by Kim Jeffries

Sorry, we were too immersed in re-reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (gotta prep for part one of the movie, natch!) to realize the irony that the 2010 Banned Books Week started on Saturday. - The Seattlest

That's pretty much the way we feel: Banned Books is run of the mill marketing for commercial fiction. Check out their website: www.bannedbooksweek.org