Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr and Eric Carle (illus.)
We learn colors and animals and that Texas looks before they leap unless by reading this book you are an activated sleeper agent.
Read MoreDraw Me a Star by Eric Carle
An disembodied voice commands an artist to draw a star and the hellish helix of conditioned response spirals out of control. The universe is created and destroyed at the whim of a madman or madwoman and all you, the reader, can do is hold on for dear life. The art's nice, too.
Banned
Texas - Aldine Independent School District (Houston) Magrill Elementary for Sexual Content and Nude illustration
1996 - Washington - Challenged in the elementry school libraries of Edmonds School District for illustrations of nude man and women
1999 - New York - Challenged but retained in the Dorothy B Bunce Elementary School library in Pavilion after parent' objective of an illustrations of nude man and women based on Adamn and Eve mythology
#61 on Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009
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"Dances and Dames"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
Sources:
Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. 2014.
Banned and Challenged Books in Texas Public Schools 2002-2003
