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It's Banned Books Week!

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The Normalization of Book Banning This report offers a window into the complex and extensive climate of censorship between July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025.

Proud to work on this with some great folks fighting for the freedom to read. Of note - SO MANY ALLIES. @heykellyjensen.bsky.social @flfreedomread.bsky.social and @txfreedomread.bsky.social!!!! pen.org/report/the-n...

Unite Against Book Bans We should trust individuals to make their own decisions. Raise your voice for everyone's freedom to read. #UniteAgainstBookBans

BANNED BOOKS WEEK October 5-11, 2025
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Follow: @UniteAgainstBookBans. #UniteAgainstBookBans

Sad to hear of the loss of the extraordinary #JaneGoodall, here are a couple of brilliant picturebooks about her and a fantastic one she wrote. #PicturebookPage #RIPJaneGoodall

#Kidlitart Great book covers... @breannacarzoo.bsky.social

Great #kitlit book covers #EmmaYarlett

Great kidlit book covers

‘They said I should be purged and killed’: The librarians who stood up for free speech How two school library workers found themselves on the front line of an ideological crisis in the US

‘They said I should be purged and killed’: The librarians who stood up for free speech share.google/uGJuWksGZRCo...

And remember to thank your librarians. These folks have been under horrible verbal attacks, both individually and as a group for the past year. And they keep on doing amazing work! Our communities are better because of them.

2025 Native Knowledge 360° Teach-In - Teaching for Change Ninth Annual Native Knowledge 360° Teach-In Saturday, September 20, 202510:00AM – 3:00PMNational Museum of the American Indian1 Bowling GreenNew York, NY 10004 Tickets are $20 a person. Contact Teachi...

See you TOMORROW: In NYC on Sat., Sept. 20: Native Knowledge 360° Teach-In

Fantastic venue, keynote address by Dr. Scott Manning Stevens on American Revolution; workshops; free books; lunch; American Revolution teaching poster; tours; & more.

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Get the Guide: Turning the Page Turning the Page: an Advocate's Guide to the Freedom to Read was made by public school parents who found themselves in the middle of an organized plan to undermine public education. This guide puts cr...

The @freedomreadproject.bsky.social has created a free guide to advocacy drawn from the experience of parents who had to fend off a coordinated attack on the right to read. Download it here: Turning the Page - Freedom to Read Project

I can’t even. If you’ve asked “what can I do about book bans?” please leave a comment on this atrocious proposa.

Great kid lit art @elisegravel.bsky.social #kidlitart

More great kid lit art #CindyDerby #Howtowalkanant

More great kid lit art #kidlitart @katelynaronson.bsky.social #evefarber.

I agree to the terms. #Ireadbannedbooks

Another great book cover. #Barroux #kitlitart

More kid lit book covers I love #kitlitart @monicasilvie.bsky.social

Some favorite kids books covers #kidlitart

"Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now, these kids were literally praying..." Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis
#guncontrolnow

#ala #bannedbooks #readbannedbooks

Andy Goldsworthy wall at Storm King Art Center, NY #andygoldsworthy @stormkingartcenter.bsky.social #natureandart #serpentinewalls

More and more books are being banned. SoCal libraries find a solution Long Beach and other SoCal libraries have joined the Books Unbanned effort, providing children as young as 13 a free e-card to access e-books and audiobooks.

Libraries nationwide are joining @bklynlibrary.bsky.social's Books Unbanned. “That’s really what the library is about. The freedom to read..We respect that everybody’s different & everyone’s got different needs. And it’s not our business to tell you what to do with those books” #UniteAgainstBookBans

Those who have #BannedBooks have never been on the right side of history.

Happy Book Birthday @laurenkerstein.bsky.social HOPE RODE @unionsquarekids.bsky.social Illus. Becca Stadtlander
#KidlitMegaFeed #Skybrarians

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

Honoring Berta Hader, Mexican-born American illustrator in partnership with her husband, Elmer. Between them, they illustrated over 70 #childrensbooks, writing about half. The Haders won Caldecott Honors in 1940 and 1944 and won the Caldecott Medal itself in 1948.

Who Needs a Forest Fire? Check out Who Needs a Forest Fire? - <p>Who needs a forest fire? We do! But not the kind we have now.</p><p><br></p><p>The first people who lived in California did not <em>fight</em> fire. They used i...

bookshop.org/p/books/who-... award-winning picture book is about wildfires in California.