They’re Banning Books in Italy Again

The banned books are among 1,098 new books for children that the Venice school district paid some €10,000 for in 2014. The blacklist includes titles from award-winning Italian and international children’s authors like Leo Leonni, whose bookLittle Blue and Little Yellow tells a fictional tale of two genderless circles that hug so hard they become green—which, in Brugnaro’s mind at least, apparently doesn’t fit the traditional family mold.

Another banned book—called What’s Dad’s Secret?—tells a tale of a divorced father whose children worry he has a terminal disease when he starts acting strange around them, only to be overjoyed to learn that instead he has simply fallen in love with his male friend, Luca.

And there’s I’m Not Like The Others by French author Janik Coat, which is about animals that are different from their traditional species, which is as much about physical and religious differences as it is about sexuality .... http://www.thedailybeast.com