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2023-07-31 10:59:00
According to the petition, Francine the monkey gives Arthur the guinea pig an rejected toy.
The title of one of the works in the popular “Arthur” series of children’s books may be banned in Florida after complaints were received about it, claiming that the book “harms” the lives of children, he wrote. Delivery time.
The series of books by American author Mark Brown tells the stories of a young guinea pig named Arthur, his family and his friends. Of the 50 works in the series, which have sold more than 60 million copies in the United States, the work was published in 1989. Arthur’s birthday (Arthur’s Birthday) is now in the crosshairs.
the guardian On July 12, Bruce Friedman, a community member in the Clay County School District in Florida, filed an appeal to make the book unavailable in classrooms. According to the story, on his birthday, Francine, the monkey, gave Arthur a bottle of it Francine spin the bottle game (Francine’s Glazing Game) written. This is a classic house party game, where the group sits in a circle and someone spins the bottle in the middle of the circle, and the person indicated by the neck of the bottle must answer the spinner’s questions. If he is not ready to do this, he must complete the task invented by the company, and then he can spin the bottle.
Bruce Friedman believes it is inappropriate to talk about such activities to elementary school students, and objects that the aforementioned book is in almost every school in the district. He wrote in his report about children with “wounded souls.”
district spokeswoman Terry Dennis said in a statement to The Daily Beast
The Florida Freedom to Read Project responded by saying: Arthur’s birthday is about including all our friends, not just inviting boys or girls to a birthday party, depending on gender.
