![]() ![]() ![]() Parents felt it encouraged them to slack off and come up with excuses to get out of doing their chores. Others thought the poem, “How Not to Have to Dry the Dishes,” sent a bad message to young children. They thought the image of the child blindfolded and tied to a chair with ropes and chains would prevent their children from sleeping at night. Parents and teachers worried that one poem in the book called “Kidnapped” was too scary and intense for their children to be reading about, especially in school. It was first banned in a Florida school in 1993 because adults thought it promoted, and even encouraged, disobedience, violence, suicide, Satan and cannibalism. ![]() Shel Silverstein, the world’s most famous children’s poetry author, had his book, A Light in the Attic banned and challenged several times. ![]()
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