Hi everyone -- banning the books, Harry and the Dursleys

[Tesha]

No: HPFGUIDX 159442


> 
> montims:
> just out of interest - does anyone know if the Lemony Snicket books
cause
> offence to these people, 

Tesha:
  Oh yes, here's one place...
"though his books have apparently been banned in Decatur, Georgia,
where elementary school teachers cancelled Handler's planned visit,
objecting to a suggestion of incest in one of the books and Count
Olaf's use of the word "damn". "Its use was precipitated," says
Handler, "by a long discussion of how one should never say this word,
since only a villain would do so vile a thing! This is exactly the
lily-liveredness of children's books that I can't stand.""

quote from http://books.guardian.co.uk/