Why was how to eat fried worms banned?

Answer 1

"How to Eat Fried Worms" by Thomas Rockwell has been challenged due to its portrayal of harm against animals, specifically worms. Some parents, educators, and organizations have objected to the book's content, feeling that it promotes animal cruelty and inappropriate behavior among children. These concerns have led to efforts to restrict or remove the book from school libraries and reading lists.

Answer 2

The novel was banned for two primary reasons, each of which raised a great deal of concern in front of many school boards in the 1990s.

First, the book encouraged children to partake in socially unacceptable activities. In this book, the activity is eating worms, which is perceived as being disgusting and not socially acceptable. Thus, concerned parents argued that this book encourages such disgusting antisocial behavior.

Second, the book encouraged children to bet on things, or in essence gamble. Since gambling is perceived as an activity of low morals and also presents the risk for great economic loss, it was felt that impressionable children could begin to fall down the slippery slope of gambling because of this book.

Both concerns meet at one central point: they both assume that the book is doing the parenting and not the parents. By laying the blame for antisocial behavior and other activities that a parent might not approve of on an otherwise strong piece of youth fiction, the parents miss the point that they are in fact responsible for the raising and morals of their own children.

Answer 3

The book How to Eat Fried Worms was banned for a couple of reasons. The first reason is because eating worms is not acceptable, and not something that children should be encouraged to do. The second reason is that in the book, the children make a bet, and betting is something else that is not good for children to do.

Answer 4

This book has been banned in many public schools in the United States as well as Malaysia