"Fifty Shades of Grey" may be full of kinky sex, but bondage couldn't overcome boogers to outrank "Captain Underpants" on the American Library Association's Top 10 List of Frequently Challenged Books in 2012, TheWrap said.
E.L. James' bestselling erotic novel landed No. 4 on the list of last year's offensive literature published in "The State of America's Libraries Report." Meanwhile, Dav Pilkey's series of childrens' books about a mean-spirited principle who unknowingly turns into a tighty-whitie-clad superhero was No. 1.
Apparently parents are more worried about their kids reading about "Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part 1: The Night of the Nasty Nostril Nuggets," as opposed to Anastasia Steele's BDSM relationship with Christian Grey.
The complete Top 10 List of Frequently Challenged Books in 2012, as compiled by the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom:
1. "Captain Underpants" (series), by Dav Pilkey 2. "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," by Sherman Alexie 3. "Thirteen Reasons Why," by Jay Asher 4. "Fifty Shades of Grey," by E. L. James 5. "And Tango Makes Three," by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell 6. "The Kite Runner," by Khaled Hosseini 7. "Looking for Alaska," by John Green 8. "Scary Stories" (series), by Alvin Schwartz 9. "The Glass Castle," by Jeannette Walls 10. "Beloved," by Toni Morrison
The office compiles the list annually as part of the association's Banned Books Week, which celebrates the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment.
