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Why threaten teachers or school librarians in Ohio House Bill 556? School administrators should be on the hook if so-called “banned” books are available to students, and the list must be loud ...
Banned Books Week is the product of a national alliance between organizations who strive to bring awareness to banned books. [123] Founded by first amendment and library activist Judy Krug and the Association of American Publishers in 1982, the event aims to bring banned books "to the attention of the American public".
[7] [39] [40] Adam Szetela of Newsweek opined that both the right and the left are "guilty" of banning books, citing the ban of To Kill a Mockingbird in California schools, Dr. Seuss' books being pulled from libraries and bookstores, and videos of liberals burning Harry Potter books. [41]
Since 2001, the American Library Association has posted the top ten most frequently challenged books per year on their website. [4] Using the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, ALA has also noted banned and challenged classics. [5] The ALA does not claim comprehensiveness in recording challenges.
The preliminary data was released at the start of Banned Books Week, an annual campaign by the ALA that raises awareness about censorship. ... with over 10,000 books banned in public schools. The ...
During the first half of the 2022-23 school year there were 1,477 instances of individual books banned, 28% more books banned across the U.S. compared to the previous six months, according to PEN ...
The American Library Association publishes a list of the top "Banned and Challenged Books" for any given year. [21] The American Library Association also organizes a "Banned Books Week", which is "an annual event celebrating the freedom to read." [21] The goal of the project is to bring awareness to banned books and promote the freedom to learn ...
And to think, a group of parents missed it in their list of 97 books they want removed from schools for being “adult rated.” Mary Dimitrov of The Island Packet reported on the parents ...