☀️ Quiz: What Should the Kids Read Next? ☀️
Quiz: What Should the Kids Read Next?
In 2022, 2,571 book titles were challenged. Now more than ever, it’s essential to talk to kids about the right to read — and let them read banned books!
Ideas in books can ignite discovery, encourage empathy, and offer solace. With that in mind, here are 22 banned books worth reading for their ideas.
Kids' book author Zetta Elliott reflects on how banned books, like her own, should be shared in schools to reflect today's reality, not hide it.
If we want to pass a love of reading to the next generation, we have to allow them to have joy when they read. This sometimes means reading books with fart jokes, books with wizards that defeat evil, graphic novels, series, and books that speak truths that resonate with kids. Unfortunately, these books are often banned.
To celebrate Banned Books Week, we asked authors to share the banned or challenged book that made a lasting impact on them as young people. Here are the books that have stayed with them through the years.
In most areas of my life, I’m a rule-follower, but when it comes to books, I’m a subversive.
Does editing out potentially upsetting material in books like Pippi Longstocking and Huckleberry Finn make them safe or strip them of their historical context?