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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

Unlike Gov. DeSantis and the state Board of Education, who consider a book banned only if the state specifically blocks it, PEN America defines a school book ban as "any action taken against a ...