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‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans (pen.org)
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Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne, children’s poet Shel Silverstein and Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson have joined Judy Blume, Sarah J. Maas, Eric Carle and Kurt Vonnegut on a mind-boggling list of hundreds of books purged from some Tennessee school libraries.

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[–] 40 points 1 year ago (5 children)

children’s poet Shel Silverstein

What? Is that the same Shel Silverstein as 2 time Grammy winning, Johnny Cash swongwriter, Academy awards and Golden Globe nominee, and Playboy Cartoonist, also prolific one act playwright, Shel Silverstein?

The answer is yes.
I just think he needs someone to shout out his other works in here in case you didn't know.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm 1000% sure they banned Shel because of "A Boy Named Sue" which they probably thought was about trans kids.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hard KeK and quite possibly the right answer.
    I figured it was Tatooin Ruth who literally is nude except for his tattoos or all the other butts he drew in his comics.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Tbf if many here heard his album Fuck 'em they'd want to cancel him too lol. I Love My Right Hand is one of the most tame songs on it, There's No One I Hate is a wild one.

    Pretty funny album though, if you can get past that sort of thing.

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