Kids, don't do this at home

A woman in Halsey, Oregon, doesn’t like a book her 13-year-old son checked out of the local library and so has announced she will burn it. According to this report from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Taffey Anderson says the problem is that the book, The Book of Bunny Suicides, is “not funny. Not at all.” She also says if the library replaces the book, she’ll have a friend check it out and she won’t return that one, either. The library, meanwhile, says she should file a complaint and they’ll review her criticism, but Anderson says she’s “disgusted by the whole ordeal.” This is not the first report of fear that children will emulate the bunnies in the book. The Post-Intelligencer reports that “in Shanghai, China, a bookseller pulled it last month after reports that several children had attempted suicide, with at least one boy dying.”