She is a person who unsuccessfully resolves to abandon her past misbehaviour in order to embrace decency, civic pride etc. She displays a violent intolerance towards sobriety, large pants and men who will not commit. Her addiction to Instants scratch cards is potentially corrupting Alice In Wonderland by Lewis CarrollUnacceptable This is a complete mess It is wrong in so many ways. It stretches credulity too far in suggesting that a little girl could grow taller and shorter by eating a cake.

It is really rather hard to believe that a Caterpillar would really be able to commission a construction worker to do repairs on his home. Enquiries into several trades unions both at home and abroad reveal zero incidence of playing cards finding work as garden painters. The White Rabbit is perhaps a good role model for punctuality and politeness, but Alice herself would have been better off sticking with her school studies in a supervised indoor classroom environment Lord Of The Flies by William GoldingUnacceptable. A very silly book about a crowd of nasty little boys running around on a desert island and getting themselves into terrible scrapes because there aren't any adults to give them algebra sums.

They would have been better advised organising themselves into a cadet force Much unhealthy stuff about pigs' heads that talk. Might possibly interest Intermediate Music Class members planning to learn the conch Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaUnacceptable. A book about a house that is infested by a single giant cockroach. The basic idea is rather ridiculous and unlikely, particularly the idea that a man might have "become" a cockroach, which of course does not happen, not in youthful, go-ahead, forward-thinking societies anyway. We found it all terribly depressing, particularly the way the cockroach hardly ever leaves his room, indicating a level of self-absorption that's frankly unhealthy. Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyAcceptable, with reservations.

While the committee applauded the ideal new society so confidently sketched out by Mr Huxley, and applauded the embryo-hatching, the conditioning, the drugs and the Feelies ­ although we were a bit shocked by all the "pneumatic" sex! ­ the book came dangerously close to sentimentality with the figure of the Savage, who educates himself and refuses to join in the fun. But he kills himself at the end and everything's all right again, thank goodness Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde by R L StevensonUnacceptable. A rather ridiculous and far-fetched tale about a man in a laboratory who drinks a steaming liquid from a retort and turns into another man who drinks brandy, laughs maniacally and visits music halls with ladies in frilly underwear, before coming home, going to bed and turning back into the first man, the one with the laboratory, in the middle of the night. Utterly pointless, in our view, and may encourage the young to try drinking steam-enhanced liquids of their own The Hobbit by JRR TolkienAcceptable, with reservations.