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PPLD Challenged Titles

Last updated: April 15, 2025

Pikes Peak Library District ensures freedom of expression for all by providing free access to Library materials, resources, programs, displays, and exhibits through which ideas and information may be explored. The freedom to access, see, hear, and read all points of view without restriction is protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. As such, PPLD abides by and complies with the following standards under C.R.S. § 24-90-122(2) in the reconsideration of its resources and use of its facilities.

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List of PPLD Challenged Titles

2023


Title: Johnny the Walrus

Reason Challenged: Anti-trans propaganda, inappropriate for children

Outcome: Retain as classified

Title: The White House

Reason Challenged: Offensively graphic sexually,  vile expressions of greed and self-love through crime 

Outcome: Retain as classified

Title: The Big Bath House

Reason Challenged: Nudity, bathing in public, normalizes the attitude that it is okay for children to show their naked bodies around adults

Outcome: Retain as classified
 

2022


Title: Doing it! Let's Talk About Sex

Reason Challenged: Content aimed at kids who are underage and cannot legally consent to acts described

Outcome: Retain as classified

Title: Kitchen Disco

Reason Challenged: Inappropriate for children (sexual connotations)

Outcome: Retain as classified

Title: Walt Disney's Donald Duck "The Old Castle's Secret" 

Reason Challenged: Racist, stereotypical portrayals of Latina women and Black people

Outcome: Retain as classified

 

2021


Title:
Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness

Reason Challenged:
This book is totally racist against the white race

Outcome:
Retain as classified

Title: Don’t Call Me Little Bunny by Gregoire Solotareff

Reason for Challenge: violence, gangs (5 challenges)

Summary: (1987) Jack, the Little Bunny, doesn't like being called that and he doesn't think being the smallest rabbit is much fun, either. Why can't he be a normal rabbit with a normal name just like everyone else?

Title: Gay Ideas: Outing and Other Controversies by Richard Mohr

Reason for Challenge: Homosexuality (5 challenges)

Summary: (1992) Philosopher Richard Mohr's articulate exposition of the moral dilemmas facing the gay community, Gay Ideas, addresses, in diverse and often shocking ways, how gays ought to represent and position themselves in the face of an increasingly threatening climate of homophobia, repression, and violence. Includes 36 illustrations.

Title: Miss America by Howard Stern

Reason for Challenge: Sexually explicit (4 challenges)

Summary: (1995) Shock-jock radio host Howard Stern shares his own offbeat, outrageous views, and offensive observations on life, the world, modern American society—and more.

Title: The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell

Reasons for Challenge: Drugs, alcohol, smoking, violence (3 challenges)

Summary: (1971) Contains instructions for the manufacture of explosives, rudimentary telecommunications phreaking devices, and related weapons, as well as instructions for home manufacturing of illicit drugs, including LSD.

Title: Animalia by Graeme Base

Reasons for Challenge: occult/satanism (2 challenges)

Summary: (1993) A noted artist presents an imaginative, whimsical journey through the letters of the alphabet, in a beautifully illustrated book that introduces a menagerie of familiar and exotic creatures.

Title: Aperture Magazine

Reason for Challenge: Nudity, sexually explicit (2 challenges)

Summary: (1952) Based in New York City, is an international quarterly journal specializing in photography. Aperture magazine is the flagship publication of Aperture Foundation.