Library in Ellsworth to note banned books

ELLSWORTH — The Ellsworth Public Library will celebrate Banned Books Week Saturday through Saturday, Sept. 23-30, with special displays focusing on censorship efforts from 387 B.C. in Greece to the present.

Among the more famous cases of book banning are Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid,” Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Little House on the Prairie,” and Jane Smiley’s “A Thousand Acres,” which won a Pulitzer Prize.

Other subjects of book bans have been the Bible, the American Heritage Dictionary and Homer’s “The Odyssey.”