Book Banning in the USASarles, PatriciaYoung Adult Library Services
The numbers make compelling reading, particularly in a week when effects similar to the wave of book bannings in the United States is echoed by a Wisconsin elementary school’s removal of a song from its spring concert because the Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus duet “Rainbowland” could be, ...
This book focuses on book-banning in public schools and libraries, a practice that prohibits or restricts access to books already published, distributed, and even approved by school or library boards. The major grounds for censorship are sex, profanity, and religion, but they are often intertwined...
Alan Gratz's children's book "Ban This Book" was published in 2017. Seven years later, his novel for kids ages 8 and older is at the center of a debate over book banning after a Florida school district last month took took the title literally and banned the book. The Florida school d...
A new national NPR/Ipsos poll reveals that 52% of Republicans are opposed to banning books from schools, whereas book bans are supported by 5% of Democrats, 16% of Independents, and 35% of Republicans. Paige Cowan-Hall has won the Women’s Prize Trust 2023 Discoveries Prize for her yet-...
certain factions while depriving citizens of adequate representation and starting up talk of using an EU army to enforce policy. Brexit reversed that process. Facebook may be a cesspit, but it’s quite ironic to advocate copying Russia’s policy of banning while complaining about Russian ...
A record-setting year for library challenges, according to the ALA Book banning is so pervasive that the top 10 lists need more slots this year. The American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom released itsrankingof the most targeted books in 2022 on April 24, with LGBTQ mem...
Jones is the author of the bookTHAT LIBRARIAN: The Fight Against Book Banning in America.She has been an educator for 22 years, and is the President of the Louisiana Association of School Librarians Food News Illustration :Ellie Skrzat
There is no logic or reason motivating these book-banning parents. Their quest for “inappropriate books” to censor stems from the fears shared by parents everywhere: the fear of losing control over one’s children. Not being able to supervise their children’s reading translates to the parent...