For this week, I’m featuring a banned, challenged, or censored book each day of the week alongside your regularly scheduled line-up!
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Pub Date July 28th 2015
Genres Nonfiction, Parenting, Childrens, Graphic Novels
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Description
A comic book for kids that includes children and families of all makeups, orientations, and gender identities, Sex Is a Funny Word is an essential resource about bodies, gender, and sexuality for children ages 8 to 10 as well as their parents and caregivers. Much more than the “facts of life” or “the birds and the bees,” Sex Is a Funny Word opens up conversations between young people and their caregivers in a way that allows adults to convey their values and beliefs while providing information about boundaries, safety, and joy.
The eagerly anticipated follow up to Lambda-nominated What Makes a Baby, from sex educator Cory Silverberg and artist Fiona Smyth, Sex Is a Funny Word reimagines “sex talk” for the twenty-first century.
REASON FOR BEING
BANNED OR CHALLENGED
This 2015 informational children’s book written by a certified sex educator was challenged because it addresses sex education and is believed to lead children to “want to have sex or ask questions about sex.”
INITIAL REACTION
Never read it, but I remember hearing about it. Sorta want to put it on my TBR/WTRO2 list…
DISCUSS
What do you guys think? Have you read this one? What were your thoughts on it and does the challenges brought upon it stand or are wildly exaggerated?