Banned Books Week: 9/27/08 - 10/4/08

This year’s Banned Books Week: Celebrating The Freedom To Read begins today and runs through October 4th. It is an annual event by the American Library Association, this year (2008) marks the 27th anniversary of Banned Books Week. The ALA website explains one reason for celebrating this event,

Banned Books Week (BBW) celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met.

See the list of the 10 most frequently challenged books in 2007 and the rest of this post at Book Dads.