Virginia school district enlists Scholastic book fair alternative Very little is known about the Texas-based SkyTree, but the group is touting the Dec. 2 event in Spotsylvania as its first public school book fair win.

A new book fair option is gaining momentum... be warned.

Image of an email from a student asking if sources "from the late 1900s" are acceptable.

I will never recover from this student email.

One the best (if not the greatest) series finales I've ever seen.

75 more books to be removed from Hanover County school libraries “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Wicked” are among 75 more books that Hanover County school principals have been ordered to remove from libraries.

Just utterly disappointed.

Increasingly convinced the core divide in humanity is between those who suffer a traumatic, destabilizing event (as we all do) and believe everybody else should have to, too, and those who suffer such an event and hope they are the last person ever to do so.

Opinion | How the ‘sex act’ has become a potent weapon for book banners in Iowa The book-banning mania takes another absurd turn.

"Just as critics predicted, all this vagueness and uncertainty is actively encouraging local education officials to sweep ever more broadly, undertaking more and more book removals in a kind of ever-expanding vortex. In this, one might argue, those laws are functioning exactly as intended."

I, and I don't think I can emphasize this enough, really despise wars.

Picture books are just the best!

The New York Public Library To Launch Nationwide “Books For All: Protect the Freedom to Read” In...

The New York Public Library To Launch Nationwide “Books For All: Protect the Freedom to Read” In Response to Unprecedented Rise in Censorship. Campaign launches during Banned Books Week and includes unlimited access to select books that have been the subject of bans and/or challenges.

Defend the Freedom to Read The attacks on books and on the freedom to learn are calculated to render our histories, our communities, and our families invisible. Through book challenges and bans, the far right is attempting...

The attacks on books and on the freedom to learn are calculated to render our histories, our communities, and our families invisible. Through book challenges and bans, the far right is attempting to erase LGBTQ+ people and people of color—and we will not let them succeed.

Please… I’ve cleaned up pee, blood, puke, dead animals. I’ve seen fist fights, custody disputes, attempted kidnappings. Syringes in the bathroom, a cleaver wielding manic, a regular patron arrested for murder.

We see all the stuff in this “list” before we eat lunch for the day.

Librarians on the Front Lines: A Reading List for Library Lovers and Realists - Longreads Increasingly, being a librarian is less and less about books and more and more about community survival.

Librarians on the Front Lines: A Reading List for Library Lovers and Realists.

Hollywood Writers Strike: Screenwriters Reach Tentative Deal With Studios to End Strike The Writers Guild of America got most of what it wanted. With actors still on picket lines, however, much of Hollywood will remain shut down.

Excellent news. I'm looking forward to seeing (and voting on) the deal.

www.nytimes.com/live/2023/09...

Fuck the studios
Hell yeah to the workers.

Children's book banned for some CMS students after parent complaints A children's book titled "Red: A Crayon’s Story" is no longer allowed for kids in grades K-4. It comes after complaints challenged under the Parent's Bill of Rights.

I’ve always try to sound the alarm about book bans and how extreme it will become. This is utterly ridiculous and I am utterly unsurprised. We are in a very dangerous time.