Parent urges Florida school district to ban Arthur’s book for bizarre reason (Rey Harris)

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According to The Daily Beast, conservative activist of the No Left Turn in Education group Bruce Friedman filed a detailed complaint about a children’s book that especially triggered him.

Arthur’s Birthday, written by creator Marc Brown in 1989, features the aardvark attending a classmate’s party that happened to fall on the same day as his birthday.

Arthur receives a glass bottle as a gift from his friend Francine, which has the words “Francine’s Spin the Bottle Game” written on it. The text is a reference to the game Spin the Bottle, in which a bottle is spun in the center of a circle of young people, and the person who spun the bottle must kiss whomever it lands on.

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