Banned Books Week, part II

Yesterday in our post we asked you to guess which Lee & Low book has been challenged. The answer?

Baseball Saved Us

Baseball Saved Us, by Ken Mochizuki and illustrated by Dom Lee

This honest story of life in the Japanese internment camps was the first book ever published by Lee & Low, and was one of the first picture books ever released about the Japanese internment camps, a darker time in American History.

Despite the challenge, it was well received by readers and is now on the Cooperative Children’s Book Center list of 50 multicultural books every child should read.

Happy Banned Books week, everyone!

This entry was written by Hannah and posted on September 29, 2010 at 5:46 pm and filed under Musings & Ponderings with tags . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. Robert Trujillo
    Posted September 29, 2010 at 5:58 pm | Permalink

    Damn, that’s *&%$#! Why was it banned? I just used this book cover as an example to show someone yesterday.

  2. Michelle Cusolito
    Posted October 1, 2010 at 8:48 pm | Permalink

    I can’t even fathom why this might be challenged. I’ve been using in my teaching since shortly after it was first published. My old worn copy sits beside me on a shelf near where I write.
    http://michellecusolito.blogspot.com/


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