censorship and banned books

What gets "banned" in today's overwrought culture conflicts? When Emily Whitten and I launched Redeemed Reader in 2011, one of our first projects was to ...

Library Tour Introduction It's taken us all week to pull it off, but we finally have it: a conversation with Janie Cheaney (the kids' book ...

I’ll bet most of us have warm memories of the local library.  I grew up in Dallas, where one of the many benefits of the ...

Much of our coverage of “Banned Books Week” has centered on the territory known as YA, or Young Adult, which has for the last ten ...

Over at BannedBooksWeek.org, the celebration has begun.  And while Janie and I made our objections to Banned Books Week clear last week, we are happy ...

In my post on Tuesday, I included a brief survey of the ALA’s “Top Ten Banned Books for 2010.”  Let’s take a closer look at ...

Early last June, the YA publishing world was rocked by a column in the Wall Street Journal by Meg Cox Gurdon, who reviews children’s books ...

Back in 1984, that fateful year when we first decided to teach our kids at home, very little curriculum was available—strange as it may seem ...

ME & MY LIBRARY I am not ashamed to say I love my local library.  As a conservative, I wish that it could be funded ...