Joanne JacobsOct 17, 20231 minYou can't give 'Hop on Pop' to a 7th-graderMiddle schoolers who read at the first, second and third-grade level won't read "baby books" and can't read grade-level books, says...
Joanne JacobsSep 18, 20232 minIt's normal for parents to object to graphic sex in kids' books Aymann Ismail thought book-banners were prudish hysterics, he writes on Slate. Then a librarian gave him a copy of one of the...
Joanne JacobsSep 18, 20232 min'Hungry Caterpillar' is banned as school purges pre-2008 booksBooks published before 2008 have been removed from school library shelves in a school district near Toronto, Canada, reports Nicole...
Joanne JacobsSep 2, 20232 minLGBTQ books for all? Muslim, Christian and Mormon parents unite in protestReligious parents -- Muslims, Christians (many of them Ethiopian) and Mormons -- have united in Maryland to protest new requirements that...