For Your Binder
Access to LGBTQ-Themed Children's Materials
This essay contains a recent history and discussion of the censorship of #LGBTQ+ books and materials for children. #books #stories #bookbanning #censorship #KidLit
Please Let This Be the Crassest Thing My Kid reads!
This link will take you to the abstract but if you have academic access with an institution or elsewhere you can get full access. In a nutshell, the researchers did a "banned book club" with parents using children's books that have been banned. Spoiler alert: one parent pushed back occasionally, but for the most part all of the parents were (from my paper) "surprised at the quality of the books; including the humor, character, vocabulary and the overall quality of the writing".
#books #stories #KidLit #bookbanning #censorship
Families' Comfort with LGBTQ2s+ picturebooks: Embracing children's critical knowledges
Some books just make grown-ups uncomfortable. But at what point does a child (and their family) being excluded outweigh an adult's discomfort? This is a powerful article that I am sure I will be going back to. #books #stories #LGBTQ #bookbanning #censorship #parents
Librarians Have a Message for Book Banners: Beware!
"Invisible to the untrained eye, our work is like the hidden rings beneath a tree's outer bark."
#books #stories #bookbanning #KidLit #censorship
Book Bans and the Librarians Who Won't Be Hushed
A fantastic piece on the real reason people try to ban and censor books and how educators are speaking out against it. #books #stories #bookbanning #censorship #KidLit
Book Banning Harms Children - Here's Why
"We hobble our children by trying to hide diversity from them."
#books #stories #bookbanning #KidLit #censorship
Librarians Beware: Self-Censorship
"every silencing of a heresy diminishes the resilience of our society and leave it less able to deal with difference." #books #stories #KidLit #bookbanning #censorship
Teachers' Self-Censorship of Children's Literature in Texas - What's Legislation Got to Do With It?
Findings indicate that preservice teachers avoid conversations (and reading books) about gender and gender identity more often than sexual orientation or race. Something to think about/and reflect on, as we are selecting books for the book center! #books #stories #LGBTQ #bookbanning #censorship #KidLit
A Study of Self-Censorship by School Librarians
This paper presents the results from a (dated) study from 2006 that was conducted to determine the extent to which self-censoring was being practiced (if being practiced at all) among school librarians in Arkansas, Delaware and North Carolina. While the design/methods part might not be of interest, the statement of the problem and the literature review might be of interest to some of you! #bookbanning #censorship
The U.S. book ban blitz & an unlikely target: a book about cute babies
Do you know the book Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers, illustrated by Marla Frazee? The super cute (but not too cute) book about babies and how adorable they are? Did you know it's been targeted for a ban? #bookbanning #KidLit #books #stories #censorship
Maurice Sendak and the Librarians: When Censorship Came From Within
It's one thing to have a far right group try to ban your book - it's a whole other plate of potatoes when it's the librarians. This is another article about the censoring of Maurice Sendak's picture book, In the Night Kitchen. #KidLit #books #stories #censorship #bookbanning
Why Mickey Wears No Pants
In 1991 Maurice Sendak of Where the Wild Things Are fame, gave a speech talking about why his character Mickey from his 1970 picture book called In the Night Kitchen, is naked. He talks about how the book has been censored and defaced (librarians painted pants on him in many copies) ever since it was published. I always love reading about picture books from the people who wrote them! #books #stories #censorship #KidLit #bookbanning
