In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
A small man is sucked out of his clothes and into a hellish wasteland where he must defeat a cult of baking Hitlers before they give rise to the abomination known as M'ilk.
Banned
1972 - Sendak's editor, Ursula Nordstrom wrote to a librarian who burned the book and commented on librarians and teacher painting over the boy's nudity
1977
Illinois - Banned in Norridge at Pennoyer Elementary after a school board member complained about "nudity without a purpose," but was reinstated in 2012.
Missouri - Damaged in Springfield by drawing shorts on the nude boy
1985 - Wisconsin - Challenged at the Cunningham Elementary School libraries for nudity
1988 - Illinois - Challenged at the Robeson Elementary School in Champaign because of "gratuitous" nudity
1989 - New Jersey - Challenged at the Camden Elementary school libraries for nudity
1992 - Minnesota - Challenged at the Elk River schools because reading the book "could lay the foundation for future use of pornography"
1994 - Texas - Challenged at the El Paso Public Library because "the little boy pictured did not have any clothes on and it pictured his private area"
2006 - North Carolina - Challenged in the Wake County schools. Parents are getting help from Called2Action, a Christian group that says its mission is to "promote and defend our shared family values."
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Sources
Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. 2014.
Taking the Mickey: Censoring Sendak’s “In the Night Kitchen”
Marshall University "In the Night Kitchen"
Mentalfloss "10 Things You Might Not Know about Maurice Sendak"
NY Times "Maurice Sendak, Author of Splendid Nightmares, Dies at 83"