Swimmy

I think most anyone that reads this blog knows that I'm taking a children's lit class.  Today, we talked about book censorship.  I expected to see Harry Potter and wasn't too surprised by Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (which is illustrated with the police officers as pigs).  However on book totally surprised me.  It's called Swimmy.

 

This is the cover of the offending title, a Caledecott Honor Book.  Not to spoil it, but this is how the story goes.  You see those little red fish around the bottom left of the picture?  Those are the rest of the fish in Swimmy's school.  Swimmy is the little black fish.  He knows he's a little different than the others, but that's ok.  One day the fish are all out swimming (as fish do) and a big fish (I think it's a tuna) comes and eats all of them, except for Swimmy.  Well, poor little Swimmy is sad so he goes out looking for friends.  He asks a jelly fish and a lobster and a variety of other sea creatures to no avail.  Finally, he finds a school of little red fish exactly like his!  He joins them and teaches them to make a formation like the one pictured below (which isn't from the actual book)

By doing this, the little fish can scare away the big fish and not get eaten.  Isn't that a good story?  Yeah, I thought it was alright.  Then what is this book doing on banned and controversial book lists in many parts of the country?

If anyone (in this area) can guess correctly WITHOUT looking it up or asking someone else, I'll bake them the delicious treat of their choice.

You have two days.  The answer will be posted by thursday.