# The Banned Books Week stuff is out! And \*I\* designed it! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 30, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banned-books-week-stuff-is-out-and-i-designed-it/310577 "2005-06-30T19:18:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banned-books-week-stuff-is-out-and-i-designed-it/310577/1 "2005-06-30T19:18:00Z")
In “real life”, I am a designer and I often do freelance projects. Last year I managed to beat out the other canidates for the job of doing the campaign colleteral for Banned Books Week for the American Library Associatation. So since then I have been working on poster and bookmark and tshirt and button and order form designs, and they are finally all done! My family has an inordinate number of ex-teachers and are more excited that I got to work on this job than _anything_ else I have ever done. You can see the stuff here (use the side links for adult poster, children’s poster, tshirt, etc to see them): [http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwkit/bbwkit.htm](http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwkit/bbwkit.htm) [sub]Posted with permission from the mods, ALA is a nonprofit and I do not profit off the sale of these items.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banned-books-week-stuff-is-out-and-i-designed-it/310577/2 "2005-06-30T19:24:49Z")
You did all the designs - adult, young adult & child? If so, great stuff! And good for you, too! Nice to do something you can really get behind, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Mithril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mithril/32/3517_2.png) [@Mithril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithril)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banned-books-week-stuff-is-out-and-i-designed-it/310577/3 "2005-06-30T19:25:12Z")
Very nice! I especially like the t-shirt with the Mark Twain quote. The image of books wrapped in chains is quite evocative. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banned-books-week-stuff-is-out-and-i-designed-it/310577/4 "2005-06-30T21:02:13Z")
Nice work!! ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banned-books-week-stuff-is-out-and-i-designed-it/310577/5 "2005-06-30T21:06:30Z")
Congrats! Good work! ---
**Author:** ![Izzybella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e56c9b/32.png) [@Izzybella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Izzybella)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banned-books-week-stuff-is-out-and-i-designed-it/310577/6 "2005-06-30T21:14:50Z")
Those are nifty. I like!! ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banned-books-week-stuff-is-out-and-i-designed-it/310577/7 "2005-06-30T21:40:29Z")
Very Cool! I always love to read the titles of the books that made the list. There are some odd ones–like Laura Ingalls Wilder or Huck Finn etc. Our school district awhile back had a brouhaha over a certain book that was a part of the third grade curriculum–don’t remember the title, but what a tempest in a teapot! Great job–hope you get to do it again. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banned-books-week-stuff-is-out-and-i-designed-it/310577/8 "2005-06-30T21:57:25Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigbyOur school district awhile back had a brouhaha over a certain book that was a part of the third grade curriculum–don’t remember the title, but what a tempest in a teapot![/QUOTE] Heh, I work for a childrens book distributor that regularly gets attitude for “selling this trash to children”. I at any given time have 30-40 of the top 100 banned childrens books at any given time. I have often thought we should assemble a “banned books pack” for sale. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banned-books-week-stuff-is-out-and-i-designed-it/310577/9 "2005-06-30T22:00:50Z")
I just order the kit for my classroom. Thanks for the head’s-up! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banned-books-week-stuff-is-out-and-i-designed-it/310577/10 "2005-06-30T22:01:35Z")
Very impressed, **Gaudere**. I think in another dimension you’re a librarian, anyway! Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banned-books-week-stuff-is-out-and-i-designed-it/310577/11 "2005-06-30T22:19:26Z")
Cool! I’ll have to see if we can order some for the library at which I work! ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banned-books-week-stuff-is-out-and-i-designed-it/310577/12 "2005-06-30T22:23:47Z")
Slick website. And that t-shirt is totally sweet. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banned-books-week-stuff-is-out-and-i-designed-it/310577/13 "2005-06-30T22:26:50Z")
Great work! ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banned-books-week-stuff-is-out-and-i-designed-it/310577/14 "2005-06-30T23:15:43Z")
You have really done your part in fighting ignorance with that. If there was a Cecil Adams award for the most worthy effort to fight ignorance, you would be a sho-in !! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banned-books-week-stuff-is-out-and-i-designed-it/310577/15 "2005-06-30T23:23:15Z")
I likes it…and now I can brag that one of my imaginary friends made it. ---
**Author:** ![dragon\_kaiser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d2c977/32.png) [@dragon\_kaiser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragon_kaiser)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banned-books-week-stuff-is-out-and-i-designed-it/310577/16 "2005-06-30T23:34:16Z")
Very nice work. I like the book with the lock and chains and I love the Twain quote. Congrats on a job VERY well done! ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banned-books-week-stuff-is-out-and-i-designed-it/310577/17 "2005-07-01T00:26:12Z")
Gaudere, this is so cool! Your work looks awesome, and I’ve got to have one of those T-shirts. I will be the envy of all my peers when I wear it because I can say I know who designed this! Well, sort of, anyway 😉 Those posters will look so great in my classroom! Speaking as someone who is half-way through with her grad degree in Library, Media, and Info Tech for schools, you rock! ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banned-books-week-stuff-is-out-and-i-designed-it/310577/18 "2005-07-01T02:16:24Z")
That is so cool, **Gaudere**! I’m looking at the [100 Most Banned Books List](http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/100mostfrequently.htm) and some of these are truly baffling. Why on earth would anyone want to ban _The Giver_? Or _Deenie_? Ack, they’re banning _Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret!_ I thought that was required reading for every 12 year old girl in the US! And what on earth is bannable about the Anastasia Krupnik books? :: stratches head :: I mean, it’s not like I’m pro banning any books, but I can definitely see being a parent and not wanting my kid reading some of these books at young ages, but…_The Headless Cupid_? What the heck is objectionable about that? Um, anyway, yeah. I am very impressed. I look forward to seeing this stuff in bookstores and libraries and telling people my friend made them! ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banned-books-week-stuff-is-out-and-i-designed-it/310577/19 "2005-07-01T11:03:53Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > but…_The Headless Cupid_? What the heck is objectionable about that? ::In a “spooky” voice:: _Ghooooooooostsssssssss._ ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banned-books-week-stuff-is-out-and-i-designed-it/310577/20 "2005-07-01T11:18:49Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > That is so cool, **Gaudere**! > > I’m looking at the [100 Most Banned Books List](http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/100mostfrequently.htm) and some of these are truly baffling. Why on earth would anyone want to ban _The Giver_? Or _Deenie_? Ack, they’re banning _Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret!_ I thought that was required reading for every 12 year old girl in the US! And what on earth is bannable about the Anastasia Krupnik books? > > :: stratches head :: I mean, it’s not like I’m pro banning any books, but I can definitely see being a parent and not wanting my kid reading some of these books at young ages, but…_The Headless Cupid_? What the heck is objectionable about that? > > Um, anyway, yeah. I am very impressed. I look forward to seeing this stuff in bookstores and libraries and telling people my friend made them! I can understand why _Deenie_ would be banned; she masturbates, and we can’t have girls pleasuring _themselves_. Both _Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret_ and the Anastasia Krupnik books feature the main characters undergoing searches for a personal religion; Margaret is from an interreligious family and Anastasia’s family apparently isn’t much of anything. _Margaret_ also begins her period. Having perused the list, I can understand why some of these books might not belong in _school_ libraries. I don’t think I’d want my middle-school child to read _American Psycho_, for example. But I don’t think books should be banned from a public library for content. That said, I propose a challenge to my fellow Dopers. Just as we have a 50 book challenge, we oughta have a Banned Books challenge. Many of these books are fairly easy to read. ::toddles off to LJ to start the community:: Robin [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banned-books-week-stuff-is-out-and-i-designed-it/310577.md?page=2)