February 16, 2004

{     12 Sexually Dubious Children's Book Titles     }    

1. Superfudge, Judy Blume
2. The Sign of the Beaver, Elizabeth George Speare
3. Old Yeller, Fred Gipson
4. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Rhoald Dahl
5. anything Dick and Jane
6. The White Stag, Kate Seredy
7. The Girl who loved Wild Horses, Paul Goble
8. Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
9. Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan
10. Ramona and Her Father, Beverly Cleary
11. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, JK Rowling
12. The Black Cauldron, Lloyd Alexander

This list provided by the magnanimous and most humorous Marc Barraclough, my brother and fellow reader of fine children's literature.