Remember that 50-cent 1984 edition of "Goodnight Moon" you saw at the Goodwill last weekend and thought about buying for your kids but didn't because you didn't have any cash on you?

It's illegal now. Better go pick it up before they burn it. In "The New Book Banning," Walter Olson writes:

It's hard to believe, but true: under a law Congress passed last year aimed at regulating hazards in children's products, the federal government has now advised that children's books published before 1985 should not be considered safe and may in many cases be unlawful to sell or distribute. Merchants, thrift stores, and booksellers may be at risk if they sell older volumes, or even give them away, without first subjecting them to testing--at prohibitive expense. Many used-book sellers, consignment stores, Goodwill outlets, and the like have accordingly begun to refuse new donations of pre-1985 volumes, yank existing ones off their shelves, and in some cases discard them en masse.

Read the whole thing. And if you want to learn about what else is now illegal, read more here. Hint: no more tacky sparkly shirts for you.