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The Book of Bunny Suicides, 1. Taffy Anderson, 0. School Board members in Brownsville, Oregon voted yesterday to keep the graphic novel The Book of Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley in the Central Linn High School library. The book, which depicts cartoons of rabbits committing suicide in a variety of ways, was challenged and temporarily removed in October. Anderson called the book inappropriate and threatened to burn the book when her 13 year-old son brought it home.
The removal of Riley's book drew a lot of concern and interest from across the country. The American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon even sent a letter stating that removing the book was a violation of the First Amendment.
Sound off: Have you read Bunny Suicides? What did you think?
To read my previous coverage on the book go here.
Comments
I loved the Bunny Suicides. Glad to see it's back in the library.
I haven't read Bunny Suicides, but it sounds like the kind of dumb humor always favored by middle school students (and maybe high school). I suspect adults have always responded to it with, "What's <i>wrong</i> with you?" I can see why a parent might wrinkle her nose, but getting the knickers in that much of a twist seems kind of overkill.
It's stupid and tasteless, but then, as Ferris Bueller might say, so is high school.
One wonders how "Barbara" has concluded the book is stupid if she has not seen it.....
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