Banned and Censored: Children's Books

the Lorax was challenged in the Laytonville, California, school district because it "criminalizes the forestry industry." The book has been objected to as being anti-industrial.

Won the most challenged book prize three years in a row.

At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.

In 1977, the Illinois Police Association urged librarians to remove the book, which portrays its characters as animals, and presents the police as pigs. The American Library Association reported similar complaints in 11 other states.