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Years earlier, I had discovered Maurice Sendak’s book In the Night Kitchen on a banned books display, and it quickly became a family favorite. Last March, a federal judge ordered several books returned to library shelves. What began in Llano with demands to censor children’s books about farts and bu...

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Published inPublishers Weekly Vol. 271; no. 35; p. 24
Main Author Leila Green Little
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York PWxyz, LLC 16.09.2024
Subjects
Anniversaries
Bans
Book challenges
Censorship
Childrens literature
Community support
Court hearings & proceedings
Librarians
Libraries
Meetings
Public libraries
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Summary:Years earlier, I had discovered Maurice Sendak’s book In the Night Kitchen on a banned books display, and it quickly became a family favorite. Last March, a federal judge ordered several books returned to library shelves. What began in Llano with demands to censor children’s books about farts and butts escalated to calls to remove hundreds of books from our school and public libraries, a moratorium on public library book purchases for nearly three years, and a narrowly averted threat to close our county libraries altogether.
ISSN:0000-0019
2150-4008