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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Josh Marcus

Florida father tried to remove ‘Arthur’ book from schools because it could ‘damage souls’

A Florida school district will put a book from the popular Arthur series back on the shelves, despite complaints for a local activist that the stories about the cartoon aardvark “damage souls.”

Clay County told The Daily Beast on Wednesday that Arthur’s Birthday would remain in the district’s libraries, even though a man named Bruce Friedman had taken issue with one of the scenes in the book where the kissing game spin the bottle is mentioned.

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