Banned Books Reading List 2019
We love Banned Books Week! Celebrated in September of each year, if nothing else, it gives us some terrific ideas about what to read next. […]
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(Not So Little) Controversy on the Prairie
The Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, has voted to remove author Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name from the […]
Children’s Book Sparks Racial Controversy
When books are banned or protested, it gives us an opportunity to look more closely at the book being called out and, in certain cases, […]
Biloxi Blues: To Kill a Mockingbird Banned
Some of the language in Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is “making some people uncomfortable.” That’s what members of a Mississippi […]
Rushdie Fatwa Gets Kicked Up
When January Magazine interviewed Salman Rushdie back in 2002, the author had reached a point in his life where it felt safe for him to […]
Fighting Censorship: Off With Their Clothes!
A group of French booksellers and publishers have gotten together to protest censorship in an entirely new and different way. When Tous à Poil, (Everyone […]
Arundhatti Roy Criticizes Penguin for Withdrawing Controversial Book
Booker prize-winning author, Arundhatti Roy, is pointing the finger at her own publisher, Penguin, for agreeing to withdraw a book they published which has offended […]
National Book Award-Winning Invisible Man Banned for “Lack of Literary Value”
There can be a great deal of power in a single voice. But is that always a good thing? The end result of a single […]
Go Read A Banned Book!
With Freedom to Read week well underway, people all across Canada are being reminded that, even in an entirely free country, the right to enjoy […]
The Best Headline in the World
When Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison’s beloved book Beloved was challenged in Michigan last week, The New York Daily News responded with what has to […]
