You Can't Read That! Banned Book Review: This Book Is Gay

Contents:

• ‘GAY NECK’: THE FOTTEN BOOK BY AN INDIAN THAT WON AMERI’S TOP CHILDREN’S LERATURE PRIZE
• GAY-NECK BY DHAL GOPAL MERJI
• GAY-NECK: THE STORY OF A PIGEON OVERVIEW
• GAY-NECK: THE STORY OF A PIGEON
• YOU CAN'T READ THAT! BANNED BOOK REVIEW: THIS BOOK IS GAY
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• GAY NECK BY MERJI, 1927 (18 RULTS)

‘GAY NECK’: THE FOTTEN BOOK BY AN INDIAN THAT WON AMERI’S TOP CHILDREN’S LERATURE PRIZE

Publishg Released 1927, the poignant children’s novel Gay Neck was wrten by an Indian immigrant who beme the first person of lor to w the Newbery Medal.

Pengu Young RearsIn 1927, the thor Dhan Gopal Merji published a slim novel, Gay Neck: The Story of a Pigeon, which follows the adventur of the tular Calcutta rrier bird, and the bird’s young owner, Ghond. Gay Neck (referrg to the bird’s Bengali name, Chra Griva) sympathetilly portrays a bond between a young boy and his beloved pigeon as they enunter hawks and tigers the jungl of Bengal and elu German fire France durg World War I.

GAY-NECK BY DHAL GOPAL MERJI

When Gay Neck and Ghond return to India after their ary service, they are battle-srred. ” War leav Gay Neck fearful and unable to fly. The magaze The Horn Book said of the novel: “Gay Neck is tly a rrier pigeon, a bearer of msag, and his msag are words of urage and love.

” The New Republic lled Gay Neck “a distguished ntributn, ” and praised Boris Artzybasheff’s illtratns as “altogether betiful.

GAY-NECK: THE STORY OF A PIGEON OVERVIEW

He’s wily nsired the first Indian Amerin who succsfully wrote for Amerin dienc, and Gay Neck was his fourth book for young, 90 years on, this once-celebrated book, which has remaed prt sce s publitn, is rarely mentned discsns of racial and ethnic diversy books for kids, as if Merji were some sort of aberratn rather than an early chapter of what uld have been. “By all reckong, Gay Neck should have tablished a publishg trend, but didn’t for many plited reasons, ” she told Neck and Merji found unlikely succs nearly a century ago thanks to the llisn of a number of forc, both personal and historil—cludg Merji’s prodig talent, U.

GAY-NECK: THE STORY OF A PIGEON

Creasg numbers the early s of the 20th century, formed lerary muni, and accumulated pal, and which the publishg of South Asian books for children flourished followg the mercial succs of Gay Neck. The rise and quiet disappearance of Gay Neck is not only a remr of how publishg succs wax and wan wh shifts groups’ social and enomic pal, but also how erasure hurts and reprentatn do, fact, matter to ntemporary narrativ about art. Here is the story of gallant Gay-Neck who, spe his many adventur, always managed to fd his way home.

But his most succsful book was Gay Neck: The Story of a Pigeon, published 1927. It is the lightful and equently thrillg tale of Gay Neck (Chra Griva Bengali, ) an “iriscence-throated” rrier pigeon, and his many adventur Calcutta, among the Himalayas, and even wartime France. I hope is not – even though googlg by s name n lead to unexpected rults – bee this book right here is a ltle piece of history and mt be prerved s origal bookEven though Gay Neck was tend for an dience of children, the wrg is remarkably sophistited and the story layered wh multiple meangs.

On the surface is an entertag acunt of Gay Neck’s life, of which every stage is scribed great we observe his birth, how his parents teach him to fly, how his young owner tras him directn, and so on.

YOU CAN'T READ THAT! BANNED BOOK REVIEW: THIS BOOK IS GAY

” This effect is achieved whout the kd of chey sentimentaly that many children’s books are guilty Gay Neck ns away, his owner is forced to go pursu, acpanied by his iends Ghond the hunter and Rajda the prit. They sur the Himalayas for the pigeon, stoppg on the way at a lamasery Sikkim, where Buddhist monks pray for Gay the pigeon is found, the narrator and his iends enunter wild elephants and other dangers of the fort that provi some tense moments. There is also much drama throughout the book, whenever birds of prey such as eagl, vultur, and buzzards try to attack and kill Gay Neck and his ltle panns, wh mixed succs.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

”A few chapters are narrated by Gay Neck himself, where he scrib his adventur that no one else uld have known of.

Like the dialogue between the humans, Gay Neck’s speech sounds lofty and archaic when read begs his story wh exhortatns such as “O wizard of all languag human and animal, listen to my tale. Gay Neck prov to be an valuable, urageo, and loyal servant of the war and like many others like him, he returns home wh a severe se of PTSD, om which he mt be spirNot all the book is prised of chas and narrow p though the do take up many pag.

GAY NECK BY MERJI, 1927 (18 RULTS)

Gay Neck has been hailed by crics as one of the few novels by Indian or Wtern wrers to e the Himalayas a meangful way.

At one pot Gay-Neck says, “Tell me this: Why is there so much killg and flictg of pa by birds and beasts on one another? Gay-Neck provis an tertg glimpse of the Great War through the ey of a young Indian – and of urse a rrier pigeon!

Gay-Neck by Dhal Gopal MerjiGay-Neck is, hands down, the bt tle to w the Newbery Medal as of 2020. What is a gay-neck? What mak gay?