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The Guardian - US
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Maya Yang

Arthur children’s book faces potential Florida ban over claim it ‘damaged souls’

Arthur the aardvark.
Arthur the aardvark. Photograph: AP

A title in the Arthur children’s book series is facing a potential ban after a conservative activist claimed that it “damaged souls”.

On 12 July, Bruce Friedman, a member of the Clay county school district community in Florida, filed a challenge to Arthur’s Birthday, a 1989 children’s book by Marc Brown about a fictional brown aardvark whose birthday falls on the same day as another party of a different classmate.

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