It’s banned book month and more specifically it's banned book week, so of course that’s the topic for this episode. As always, there are a few tangents, we wouldn’t be us without them. This episode contains explicit language and spoilers for Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.

Links to where we got our information:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/us-literacy-rates-by-state

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/this-is-the-most-banned-book-in-texas/

https://www.ala.org/search/site?keys=the+bluest+eye

https://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10

https://www.ala.org/bbooks/banned-books-qa

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