Opinion

On the occasion of receiving the 2023 Margaret A. Edwards Award honoring his significant and lasting contribution to writing for teens, Jason Reynolds took the reins on SLJ's Instagram. Here's the full AMA, your feel-good watch of the day.

Did booksellers throw librarians under the bus regarding censorship? Imagining there was more to the story out of ABA's Winter Institute, SLJ editor in chief Kathy Ishizuka explores common ground between bookstores and libraries and finds that when book people work together, good things can happen.

It’s some visual. The literal erasure of the word “racism” and by extension the lived experience of more than 100,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry and their descendants. Among them: Maggie Tokuda-Hall, author of Love in the Library—who received those amendments to her picture book by a Scholastic editor—and myself.

In neighborhoods around the country, people are joining together to steward the soil, fight hunger, promote well-being, celebrate culture, and forge community ties through seed saving.

Ignoring ChatGPT is not the answer, but neither is relying on the software to perform the tasks and duties of a trained school librarian.

Twitter’s decline makes the case for information literacy.

Driven by conspiracy theories and memes, contemporary antisemitism is spurring new strategies to inform youth, empower allies, and hold social sites to account.

A roundup of recent feedback.

It’s a constant, Best Books, an annual ritual that nevertheless inspires us anew, lending a welcome element of anticipation, delight, and discovery at year’s end.