The American Library Association has released a list over which library books people object to the most, and a children's story about a family of penguins with two fathers tops the list for the second year in a row.

"And Tango Makes Three," by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, was the most "challenged" book - defined as a "formal, written complaint filed with a library or school requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness" - in public schools and libraries, according to the American Library Association.

"The complaints are that young children will believe that homosexuality is a lifestyle that is acceptable. The people complaining, of course, don't agree with that," Judith Krug, director of the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom, told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Other books on the ALA's top 10 list include Maya Angelou's memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," in which the author writes of being raped as a young girl; Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," long attacked for alleged racism; and Philip Pullman's "The Golden Compass," an anti-religious work in which a former nun says: "The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake."

According to the ALA, at least 65 challenges last year led to a book being pulled.

Last update: 05-07-2008 18:26