The Iowa law, passed last year in the Republican-controlled statehouse, bans school libraries from carrying books that depict sex acts. The law also requires schools to publicize its library collection online and provide instructions for parents on how to request the removal of books or other mat...
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...
Teachers in public schools across the country continue to face scrutiny at the local and state level as lawmakers in Republican-led statehouses push forward with book bans and restrict curriculum on issues related to race, gender, and sexuality such as in ...
SOME 1,597 BOOKS HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED OR removed from libraries over the past year, according to the latest figures from the American Library Association (ALA)-the highest number since the organization began keeping track 20 years ago. Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA's Office for ...
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...
Celebrate Banned Books Week 2020 from September 27 - October 3 at Harper College Library! Here is a timeline of some of the most famous banned/challenged literature and why they were prohibited. By clicking the “More” button on the event and then cl
Stephen King is no stranger to having his books challenged. However, there are some standout candidates, including one book, so infamous that King himself has pulled it from circulation and remains ou
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...
Book banners were successful elsewhere in the US’s deep South. In Alabama, four members of the State Textbook Committee, which decides what books are allowed in local schools, asked that the book be rejected because, they said, it preached “bitterness and hatred against whites”. ...