Firefly's Blog

Customers are always surprised by some of the book titles that appear in our displays for Banned Books Week. One of the most common questions we get is, "Why would anyone try to ban Captain Underpants?" The Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey appears as the number one challenged book for 2012, according to the American Library Association (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom. Captain Underpants is a very popular series with beginning readers, but it is often requested to be pulled fro …