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A picture book written for children ages 4 to 8 is not getting a warm welcome at some Illinois schools. The book is based on a true story of two male penguins in New York City’s Central Park Zoo who adopted a fertilized egg and raised the chick as their own. Some parents of Illinois’ Shiloh Elementary School studnets are voicing concerns about the book’s homosexual undertones which tackles topics their children are not ready for.
The district attorney believes that moving the book and requiring paretnal permissin to be checked out is a form of censorship. She believes that a library is to serve an entire population, represting different families in a society, different religions, different beliefs.’ While this is true, I do believe that some form of censorship is a must. I believe the book should not be made available to 4-8 year olds for check out. I’m open to diversity, and I promote reading on a wide scale and I also see the importance of a large variety of topics that children should be exposed to, but teaching them about homosexuality at this young age in such a cute caring way is telling them that it’s a natural way of life… but it really isn’t.
