Last month, Bleeding Cool reported that conservative parent groups in America were switching from complaints to public libraries about books with racial, gender or orientation, to complaints about book fairs, with the graphic novel series Heartstopper being initially targeted.
Scholastic is the vast provider of these, with 120,000 across US schools.
Children seeing themselves in books is not optional, and marginalized creators writing about their lived experiences need to be fully accessible to all readers. The banning of books has become a cultural catastrophe, all the more reason for the largest publisher of children's books to take a stand and push back against it.
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