Here’s a new twist on book challenges: A book about saving forests has been removed from first-grade classes in the Grants Pass School District after complaints about the way loggers are portrayed.
School officials say the decision was made after complaints over material in “Help the Forest” by Rita Crosby.
For a little context,
For a little context, timber-producing areas (and former timber-producing areas) in Oregon are very sensitive to anything having to do with this issue. Two great texts on this are:
Clearcut: The story of Philomath, Oregon (film, http://www.clearcutmovie.com/)
In Timber Country: working people’s stories of environmental conflict and urban flight, by Beverly A. Brown (http://www.librarything.com/work/1981813)