She doesn't think the book is appropriate for ANYONE let alone high school readers.

And I will pray for her because that is no way to live.

(I'm pretty sure that kids in high school know about suicide. And that they realize the bunnies in the book are drawings. And the kids also realize that this book won't lead to mass cartoon bunny suicides.)

I sincerely hope her kid brought this book home because it was a funny (though possibly thought-provoking) book. I hope this kid hasn't always been sheltered to the point that this book was shocking.

I'd forgotten how funny the book is too. hahaha.

I hope her kid won't have to go into a special corruption program.

This is so silly. If she doesn't like the book she should sit down with her kid and talk about it then take it back. And she really only has "authority" over her own kid, not everyone else's. She is stealing that book and that's wrong.

And you know I'm the most conservative person here....my husband was grossed out by the book but mostly because like me he loooves bunnies, but it's so over the top-I mean, come on.

once again these people prove they don't really "get it".

woman steals [book], threatens to ban/burn it
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school raises fuss about it
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resultant media frenzy, many offers to replace
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1,000,000 new people who've never even HEARD of [book] before read it...

+ school gets additional donations of further "controversial books" and library money
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you're not very smart, are you?

I haven't heard of this book until today. I live in a cave.

Okay, son of a teacher/school librarian, worked in High School and College libraries, lover of some rather shocking cartoony stuff, but "Bunny Suicides" not so much. For a public library, the more the weirder the better, but for a high school library, I don't think so.

OBVIOUSLY the unilateral action by the mother is so NOT okay.

But way back in the early '70s I saw some "semi-underground comics" (relatively mild in content but definitely controversial under cover of cute) which slipped past the semi-censorious book requisition librarian at my conservative Catholic high school... much more trouble than they were worth and the whole mess brought out the worst in everybody involved. There's a real value to reading controversial books (I had two English teachers at that same school who specifically assigned books the library wouldn't carry), but "Bunny Suicides" is more "bait and switch" shock humor, and IMO less funny funny than it could've been.

For better bunny funnies (but still not for kids who overreact to boogers), I recommend this almost-daily webcomic, now on episode #1255.

"Are we still burning books? Come on," Mathis said. "It just struck a chord with me. If you want to burn something, go burn a video game."


OH FFS.

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