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The Louisiana librarian is taking her harassers to court. 

School Library Journal has been named a finalist in the 2022 FOLIO Awards for its censorship coverage.
 

Here's what's trending on SLJ.

The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators has launched its inaugural micro-grants program with a school library grant; author Stephen King testified about the negative impact the merger of Penguin Random House and S. & S. would have on writers, and it's time to vote for a library to get a makeover in this edition of News Bites. 

And We Rise, Martin's evocative book-in-verse addressing the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, began as a series of poems about the Jim Crow era.
 

Lighthearted poetry, wordplay, and grammar tips make for entertaining listening and learning in the heat of summer.

View the panel discussion from SLJ’s Picture Book Palooza, with Richard Cowdrey, AG Ford, Laura Park, Miki Sato, and Dan Yaccarino on the art of visualizing the text.

Snacking shrews and curious mammoths—not your typical guides for learning math concepts. But that’s the magic of David Macaulay. The award-winning author and illustrator keynoted SLJ's Picture Book Palooza.

Bigotry and threatened violence in her Idaho community led Delaney Daly to reconsider her dream job. The experience left her "confident and knowledgeable" to take the next step in her library career.