A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Marlon Bundo and Jill Twiss, EG Keller (illus.)
Marlon Bundo, the BOTUS, lives a lonely life until he meets Wesley. Can their love remain when the stink bug decides same sex marriage is still allowed?
Banned
#3 on Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2019; Challenged and vandalized for LGBTQIA+ content and political viewpoints, for concerns that it is “designed to pollute the morals of its readers,” and for not including a content warning
2019 - Texas - A patron of the public library in Terrell objected on religious grounds but after a presentation to the library advisory board, the title was retained.
2019 - Iowa - Along with other LGBTQIA+ materials, the book was challenged by members of the Orance City Public Library community "on the grounds that it indoctrinated children and pushed an agenda the community did not agree with." Others in the community and the board disagreed, and the book was retained.
2020 - Oklahoma - A person defaced the book writing “Girl bunnies marry boy bunnies. This is that way it has always been… because science.” No formal request to remove was filed.
Sources
American Library Association. "Top 10 Most Challenged Books Lists." American Library Association. Chicago, Ill. Retrieved on 2020 October 14 from http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10
Bundo, Marlon and Jill Twiss. EG Keller (illus.) "A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo." Chronicle Books, LLC. San Francisco, 2018.
Titus, Ron. "Banned Books 2020 - A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo." Marshall Libraries. Retrieved 2020 October 14 from https://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/a-day-in-the-life-of-marlon-bundo/
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