After inspecting a book that her son checked out from the school library, Oregon mother Taffey Anderson decided never return it, according to a recent Associated Press story.

“The Book of Bunny Suicides” by British author Andy Riley is a cartoon collection that depicts a rabbit that tries to end its life in bizarre ways. Anderson’s 13-year-old son and his friends thought it was funny. His mom, however, did not.

"It is a comic book, but that's not funny. Not at all," Anderson told the Albany Democrat-Herald newspaper. "I don't care if your kid is 16, 17, 18. It's wrong."

Anderson is trying to get the school district to ban the book, according to the AP. In the meantime, she refuses to return “Bunny Suicides” because she doesn’t want other children reading it.

A librarian interviewed by the AP described it as “kind of mature, a little twisted and black.” He compared it to the 1988 cartoon book, “101 Uses for a Dead Cat.”

"Every family is different, and the range of community values in fiction, in movies, nonfiction, is so broad it's astonishing," librarian Scott Keeney told the AP. "Some families, you'd be astonished at what they allow or disallow on all sides of the open-information-for-children spectrum."

How do you decide what’s appropriate reading material for your children?

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