Iowa: Frozen blue water margarita West Okoboji Lake is one of Iowa's biggest claims to fame. In fact, the naturally blue lake is so beloved that it inspired Iowa's signature drink, the frozen blue water margarita. According to Taste of Home, the cocktail is madelike the classic margarita...
“Is it wrong to call these books banned?” asks Ockerbloom in his essay“Why Banned Books Week Matters.”Of course he answers in the negative; “not if you take readers seriously. An unread book, after all, has as little impact as an unpublished bo...
Today’s pop-up books are more directly tied to 1929’s “Daily Express Children’s Annual No. 1,” published by Louis Giraud and Theodore Brown. Known at the time as a “movable,” Giraud and Brown’s book introduced a handy flap that, when pulled, prompted cardboard models to spring...
The Dead Zonewas ranked 82nd most challenged book (during the period of 1990-1999) in ALA’s banned books list. The novel is about a man named Johnny Smith who falls into a coma for upwards of five years; when he regains consciousness, he has suffered brain damage and gains clairvoyant...
The decision Thursday went against a judge who had advised the Oklahoma Board of Education not to revoke the license of Summer Boismier, who had also put in her high school classroom a QR code of the Brooklyn Public Library’s catalogue of banned books....
Films, books, songs, you name it: if it ran afoul of the Boston Catholic Diocese, chances are good it was banned. "Banned in Boston" was a phrase often used to market a controversial "something," as it suggested the item was red hot, and that only helped to increase the appeal. ...
Judge Stephen Locher's preliminary injunction halts enforcement of the law, which was set to take effect Jan. 1 but already had resulted in the removal of hundreds of books from Iowa schools. The law, which the Republican-led Legislature and GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds approved early in 2023, ban...
Several states including Florida, Texas and Iowa, recently passed bills that prohibit teaching or discussing what they call "divisive concepts." Caldwell-Stone refers to the restrictions as educational gag orders, adding: "Books are being removed under the falsehood that they are 'critical race ...
including The New York Times, many of those book bans are occurring in states, likeIowa,UtahandFlorida, where new laws support overt censorship. Many of these lawmakers have aligned themselves with so-called parental rights groups that advocate for restricting books lest children stumble...
Banned in the U.S.A.: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries. This book focuses on book-banning in public schools and libraries, a practice that prohibits or restricts access to books already published, distributed, a......