Sweeping book challenges and bans across the country resulted in thousands of titles being removed from library and classroom shelves during the 2021-22 school year, according to the nonprofit ...

Among the thousands of titles removed from school and library shelves last school year were more than 300 picture books meant for young readers, according to a nonprofit organization that tracks ...

Back-to-school time is here, so why not get your kids in the mood with some LGBTQ-inclusive picture books set in schools? There are now many such books, but here are a few of my favorites, across a ...

Nonprofit organization PEN America released a list of the most banned titles on Jan. 27 Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital ...

Back to School, Backpack! Simon Rich, illus. by Tom Toro. Little, Brown, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-62834-1. Ages 4–8. The start of a new school year is just as nerve-wracking for backpacks as ...

In Hernando County north of Tampa, six picture books were removed recently from school libraries, including Sendak’s “In the Night Kitchen” and David Shannon’s “No, David!” They all ...

PEN America has shared its findings on the most frequently banned picture books of the 2023–2024 school year. Several common elements are apparent in the 23 titles on the list, including LGBTQ+ ...

There’s never a bad time for a scandal-ridden right-wing government like Alberta’s United Conservative Party to try to gin up ...

Except that the marketplace keeps insisting otherwise, not just on movie screens and Instagram but at school and on the playground. Four new picture books dare to flirt with body negativity ...

As many as one in five students at a Twin Cities charter school were kept home in protest late last month by Muslim parents who demanded the school drop its use of LGBTQ-friendly picture books.