Banned1986
Maus
Art Spiegelman
This Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel depicts the author's father's experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor, with Jews drawn as mice and Nazis as cats. It is both a memoir of Spiegelman's relationship with his father and a powerful chronicle of the Holocaust.
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Why this book is challenged
- •nudity
- •profanity
- •violence
- •unsuitable for age group
Challenge History
Spotsylvania County School Libraries
Spotsylvania, Virginia
Board members called for burning books with sexually explicit content; Maus among titles targeted
November 14, 2022school district
McMinn County Schools
Athens, Tennessee
Nudity and profanity deemed inappropriate for eighth-grade students
January 10, 2022school district
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