Winners of Banned Book Week contest named

Published or Revised October 08, 2010

Paris Junior College marked Banned Book Week with a contest for students to pick one book that has never been banned from a list of books that were banned. "We had over 150 entries this year," said Technical Services Librarian Alexia Riggs. "Winners were drawn randomly from entries. The contest's success was the interest generated with the participating students." Popular selections from the list of books and potential reasons they were banned included, "Encourages children to break dishes so they won't have to dry them" on [i]A Light in the Attic[/i] by Shel Silverstein and "It is a real downer" about the [i]Diary of Anne Frank[/i] by Anne Frank. None of the reasons given on the list were actually used to ban those books. Winners were Kristyn Phillips and William Johnson on the Paris campus, William Bryant on the Sulphur Springs campus, and Edward Carlile on the Greenville campus. Winners received a $10 gift card to Hastings.