Twenty years after the band Nirvana released its first album a District 192 review panel has decided a book about the band’s lead singer is inappropriate for elementary and middle school students.
The panel reviewed the book, “Kurt Cobain,” Nov. 4 after the parent of a Riverview Elementary School third grader filed a complaint. The book is from publisher Edge Books’ Rock Music Library series of books. According to administrative services director Rosalyn Pautzke, a member of the review panel, it is geared toward students from ages 12 to 15.
A summary at online bookseller bn.com describes the book as high-interest material “coupled with a reading level for middle elementary grades.”
But Pautzke said most on the review panel found the book’s material too dark for the elementary-age audience it was presented to. The first image inside the book’s cover is a glossy, full-color image of Cobain’s body being wheeled out of his home following his suicide in 1994.
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