Speaking of banned books...

Time for some link goodness.

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, for a brief history of comics and censorship

As If! Authors Support Intellectual Freedom, a blog by authors of young adult literature

ALA's list of the most challenged books of 2007

The NPR story on Rick Wartzman's Obscene In The Extreme, a new book that examines the 1939 banning (then burning) of The Grapes Of Wrath in Kern County, California.

Philip Pullman's views on book banning

The Guardian's quiz on banned books. Check your knowledge!

{via] Young Adult Library Services Association blog; Northfield Mount Herman School library blog :-)