17th Annual Banned Books Reading

The 17^th Annual Reading of Challenged and Banned Books

Missouri Western State University

St. Joseph, MO

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

      Enright 214 & 216, Spratt Hall
7-8 PM

Readers & Books

Dr. Susan Martens, Prairie Lands Writing Project  

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Dr. Shana Meyer, Vice President for Student Affairs, MWSU   

• Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

Mr. Dennis Ellsworth, Executive Editor, St. Joseph News-Press  

• The Population Bomb by Paul Erhlich

Ms. Amber Thorp, President of the International Reading Association

• The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

Dr. Kit Blake, Assistant Professor of Education, MWSU

• The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman

Mr. Will Stuck, Children’s Librarian, St. Joseph Public Library

• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Ms. Donna Jean Boyer, Member of the St. Joseph City Council

• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Dr. Kaye Adkins, Professor of English, MWSU

• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by, well, Benjamin Franklin

"All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!"
-- Kurt Vonnegut

Please join us for conversation and refreshments following the readings.

Sponsors: 

Dept. of English, Foreign Languages, and Journalism; Dept. of Education; MWSU Library; Student National Council of Teachers of English; Prairie Lands Writing Project.