After the case was originally dismissed, a 2-1 majority opinion of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the claim by Miami-Dade County School Board that they were in their right to remove Vamos a Cuba by Alta Schreier, published by Heinemann Library, from school libraries for reasons of it not being an accurate representation of life in Cuba.

The case was picked up by the Miami-Dade County School Board after complaints by several people including a former political prisoner of Cuba. The book offended mainly because it depicts smiling children wearing uniforms of Cuba’s communist youth group and the book tells of “carnavals” that in reality are commemorative days celebrating Cuba’s revolutionist history. According to the complainers, the fault of the book is one of omission as the aspects of totalitarianism that effect Cuban life are not covered.

Over at Children’s Book Examiner Diane Petryk Bloom questions where the line lies between books being age appropriate and inaccurate.