School librarys banned bookshelf may shock you with beloved childrens novels

My daughter just finished “Charlotte’s Web.” She didn’t like it.Something about realising the fate of farm pigs. “They were going to turn Wilbur into bacon, mummy!” she cried… as I was cooking her weekend breakfast. Awkward. It’s not the first time I’ve heard of kids not enjoying the children’s classic by EB White, but there’s a reason it’s on most year four book lists.

It’s an old-school classic about friendship, overcoming adversity, and just being kind to others. But there’s one school where the classic novel won’t be being read in classrooms – because it has been put on a very special shelf in their school library.A shelf full of “banned” controversial reads. A person recently took to Reddit to share an image they spotted at their local school filled with “warning” signs. “School library has a display of banned and challenged books.

Here’s a small sample,” they wrote along with some images of the notes displayed on the bookshelf. “Warning: Satanic,” the sign read about J.R.R Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” series.“Pro-communist, sexually explicit,” was given for George Orwell’s “1984.” Even “Where’s Wally” was sin-binned to the shelf for “nudity, unsuited for age group.”And yes, amongst them was also “Charlotte’s Web” which was labelled with “Blasphemous, unnatural, inappropriate subject matter for children.”I mean, ask my daughter and she’d probably agree that “Charlotte’s Web” deserves to be there, but the parents out there were puzzled as to why some of the best books we read as kids were now off-limits for some.Many people in the thread were left confused over the banned shelf and went to heavily defend some of the classics.“Calling a book ‘satanic’ is so insanely ignorant and theocratic,” one person ranted. “Lol at 1984 and Animal Farm communism,” another added. And another screamed: “What the hell is wrong with Charlotte’s W...