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Celebrate your child's right to read during this week's Virtual Read-Out.
Video yourself reading from your favorite challenged book, then upload it to the Banned Books Week channel on YouTube.
You can also watch videos of authors, celebrities and people just like you reading from their favorites.
Banned Books Week (Sept 24-Oct. 1) was launched in 1982 in response to a spike in movements to censor books in schools, bookstores and libraries.
Banned Books Week (Sept 24-Oct. 1) was launched in 1982 in response to a spike in movements to censor books in schools, bookstores and libraries.
Here are just a dozen of the children's books that have come under fire over the years.
All of them are also beloved and/or very popular, and many won the highest awards in literature.
Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
James and the Giant Peach by Road Dahl
Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
A LIght in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Where's Waldo by Martin Hanford
Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer