Texas District Backtracks On Decision To Ban Anne Frank Adaptation

An illustrated adaptation of Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl was among the books deemed too controversial for school libraries by Texan educators out to cleanse the curriculum of racy topics. 

Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation is a 2019 retelling of the famous diary in the form of a graphic novel by Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman and illustrator David Polonsky.

The decision sparked widespread outcry, causing the Keller Independent School District's executive committee to backtrack; the body stated on Saturday that the adaptation of the most celebrated Holocaust witness account of all will return to the shelves. 

Commentators on social media and elsewhere noted that other books deemed inappropriate included Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe, overall more plausible targets of conservative outrage over so-called "critical race theory" than the diary of a teenage Holocaust victim.  

The ban followed objections raised by conservative activist parents and school board members regarding the contents of the books, specifically any references to race and sex, the latter apparently including Anne Frank's disarming musings on