Censorship
A parent objects when a first grader shares "Captain Underpants"; contending with parents who say their children are gifted.
Sharon Grover and Liz Hannegan consider whether listening to challenged books is a different experience than consuming in print
Training volunteer parents to hold opinions; requests to create a booklist about overweight adolescents and to remove books about suicide.
You may or may not have heard of the controversy surrounding Kate Messner’s book The Seventh Wish. If you haven’t, you can catch up with it on Kate’s blog. You should probably start with this post and work your way back. For those of you on a schedule, however, essentially Kate was uninvited (with less than […]
The award-winning graphic novel This One Summer has come under fire again, this time in Henning, MN.
The controversial teen novel by John Green came under heavy fire in one high school—but in a victory for "freedom to read," the merits of its use prevailed.
At “Who Are You To Say?”, an event held in New York City on April 16, authors and kid lit experts weighed in on where to draw the line between being aware and censoring.
The protests of one mom, who didn't want her son reading Toni Morrison's "Beloved," led to legislation that would require an "opt-out" option for assigned literature.
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