Ideal Bookshelf 1223: Banned Books

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Here is a stack of books challenged and/or banned recently, mostly new but I included a few classics just to remind us all how crazy it is. Personally, I think banning books is just a futile attempt for adults to try to exert control over kids who are trying hard to learn how to be adults and need every bit of data they can get from all sources. And not only is controlling kids’ minds totally wrong AND basically impossible, but if that’s the goal then books are (by far!) the last thing anyone should be attacking (oh hi, social media). Also, this control-seeking is often just a manifestation of irrational hatred for anyone in any way different from the hater.

On the positive side, books that get banned often get an uptick in sales; in 2022 Art Spiegelman’s classic graphic novel Maus was now on Amazon’s bestseller list, 30+ years after publication, thanks to a Tennessee school district banning it for “rough language” and a drawing of a nude woman.

In any case, this print makes a great reading list!

Starting in September 2024, 5% of the revenue from sales of this print will be donated to PEN America, an organization that champions the freedom to read and to write.

First offered in April 2022
Archival pigment ink print on fine art paper
Based on original paintings by Jane Mount

BOOKS INCLUDED:

The Bluest Eye by Tony Morrison
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
The Outsider by S.E. Hinton
Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Prince & Knight by Daniel Haack, Stevie Lewis
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Stamped by Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
New Kid by Jerry Craft
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Looking for Alaska by John Green
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel, Jazz Jennings, Shelagh McNicholas
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
This Book Is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell, Aurélia Durand
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, Ann Hazzard
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki
Beyond Magenta by Susan Kuklin
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell, Henry Cole
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Sex Is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg, Fiona Smyth
Melissa by Alex Gino
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
Front Desk by Kelly Yang
Drama by Raina Telgemeier
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Anne Frank by Anne Frank

Framing & Sizing Info

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Please note, if you order a framed 8 x 10" print or painting, it will arrive in a frame that is about 11.75 x 13.75". An 11 x 14" print or painting will be in a 16.75 x 19.75" frame, and a 16 x 20" in a 22.75 x 26.75" frame.

As all the frames are custom fit to the prints, framing your work adds 2-3 weeks to your delivery time, but it is SO worth it, we promise.