![]() The book was part of its eighth grade English and language arts curriculum.Īs news spread about the school board's decision, Spiegelman called the decision "absurd" and the U.S. 10 meeting minutes posted to the district website. The McMinn County School Board in eastern Tennessee voted 10-0 earlier this year to ban the book, citing concerns over "rough" language and a nude drawing of a woman, according to the Jan. 'It's embarrassing': 'Reading Rainbow' host LeVar Burton fires back at rise in banned books ![]() It was an honor wholly deserved by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who channeled his Polish-Jewish, Holocaust-surviving parents' experiences into the semi-autobiographical masterpiece in which Jews are represented as mice and Germans as cats. The serialized comic, completed and published in collected volumes in 1991, made literary history when in 1992 it became the first (and to date only) graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize. Now, book banners are coming for "Maus," a classic of holocaust literature. We value diverse perspectives, are open to new ideas and respect intellectual freedom. So it should come as no surprise that the thought of banning a book would make us riled. ![]() Watch Video: Central York High School students speak out against book banĪs journalists, it's our job to seek out the truth even when it's uncomfortable.
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