Censorship
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.
In response to a complaint from a parent of an elementary school student, three high school libraries in Florida have restricted access to the award-winning This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki.
Should libraries that already purchased books based on their starred reviews keep or withdraw them because of subsequent controversies?
I understand small moments of joy on a page, like a slave receiving a Christmas present, because I can place those stories into a broad landscape and see them as the exception, not the norm. You have to earn hopeful stories about horrifying events, and you can only see what hope means if the horrors lurking nearby are visible
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