{"id":560,"date":"2009-10-01T11:25:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T15:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=560"},"modified":"2009-10-01T11:25:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T15:25:56","slug":"nudity-in-childrens-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/10\/01\/nudity-in-childrens-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Nudity in Children&#8217;s Books?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Books geared for children are often the most challenged.\u00a0\u00a0Today&#8217;s blog entry is <em>In The Night Kitchen<\/em>,\u00a0#25 on\u00a0ALA&#8217;s top 100 list of challenges between 1990-1999.\u00a0\u00a0 In this case, beloved children&#8217;s author Maurice Sendak has raised eyebrows when the stories&#8217; main character Mickey enters the surreal world that Sendak is known for, and loses his pajama bottoms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-561\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/sendak-nightkitchen.jpg?w=228\" alt=\"In The Night Kitchen, Maurice Sendak\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/10\/sendak-nightkitchen.jpg 456w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/10\/sendak-nightkitchen-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The focus of the book is how brave and resourceful young Mickey is when he falls into a mixing bowl full of cake batter and is accidentally baked.\u00a0 By celebrating creative dreams and\u00a0facing fears, \u00a0Sendak takes a scary experience for children (spooky sounds from downstairs) and turns it into a wonderfully delightful story for children of all ages.\u00a0\u00a0 And for the naked boy in the story, is there anybody who has had a little boy that doesn&#8217;t run around the house naked now and then?<\/p>\n<p>Some libraries have drawn pants, diapers, fig leaves\u00a0and even used White Out\u00a0to cover the parts of the booked deemed offensive.\u00a0 An unaltered copy of the book can be found in the Northeast Children&#8217;s Literature Collection &#8211; come judge it for yourself.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books geared for children are often the most challenged.\u00a0\u00a0Today&#8217;s blog entry is In The Night Kitchen,\u00a0#25 on\u00a0ALA&#8217;s top 100 list of challenges between 1990-1999.\u00a0\u00a0 In this case, beloved children&#8217;s author Maurice Sendak has raised eyebrows when the stories&#8217; main character &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/10\/01\/nudity-in-childrens-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-92","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}