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Banned Books Week

May

10

2019

Emma Nichols

The Graphic Novel Is a Perfect Teachable Format: Using Graphic Novels to Help Readers

Posted in Publishers Weekly Children’s Bookshelf newsletter May 7, 2019 by Emma Nichols, bookseller at Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA When I first started in bookselling, parents often balked at my comics recommendations. They wanted their kids to read “real books.” Five years later, a lot has changed: I’m still recommending comics and kids …

Sep

28

2018

Bookstores Celebrate Banned and Challenged Books

Independent bookstores don’t have the space to carry every title, but they celebrate your freedom to read. This week, many stores created displays to raise awareness of censorship through Banned Books Week (September 23-29, 2018). From University Book Store in Seattle: We’re with the Banned. In celebration and anticipation of 2018’s top 10 banned books, we’re …

Sep

27

2017

Ban This Book

Ban This Book by Alan Gratz

Ban This Book by Alan Gratz is a classic and it’s brand new! When Amy’s favorite book is banned from her school library, she decides to run a library from her locker filled with banned books. I love reading banned books, and this one is chock full of books that have actually been banned. My to-read …

Oct

3

2016

Auntie's Staff with banned or challenged books

Auntie’s Staff Caught Reading Banned Books

To celebrate Banned Books Week (September 25- October 1), Auntie’s Bookstore in Spokane posted photos of its staff holding beloved books that have been banned or challenged. The books pictured: Lolita The Catcher in the Rye Catch-22 Animal Farm and 1984 The Kite Runner The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Watchmen Fahrenheit 451 …

Jun

3

2015

penguin by Elizabeth Rose Stanton

Children’s Book Illustrators
Online Auction, Through June 8!

If you’re a fan of picture books, here’s an opportunity to own art created by some of today’s most talented illustrators! The American Booksellers for Free Expression (ABFE), a part of the American Booksellers Association, is the bookseller’s voice in the fight against censorship. Booksellers from around the country just attended a national conference, Book …

Sep

28

2011

Happy Banned Books Week, from Beach Books!

We love watching the videos that Beach Books (Seaside, OR) has posted with friends of the store reading from banned books. Among them, a Seaside High School teacher reads from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian; a Seaside librarian reads from One Hundred Years of Solitude; Beach Books’ owner Karen Emmerling reads from …

Sep

7

2011

What Will You Read for Banned Books Week?

The American Library Association’s Banned Books Week is September 24 through October 1, and they’ve got a neat way for anyone, anywhere to participate this year—what they’re calling a virtual read-out. All you have to do is film yourself reading from your favorite banned book and post it on this YouTube channel. The booksellers at …

Oct

4

2010

No Book Banning Here

Here’s Third Street Books’ window display commemorating Banned Books Week last week. “I like to think of it more as a reminder that there are still places in America where books like Harry Potter and The Lorax are banned,” owner Sylla McClellan explained on the store’s blog. “At Third Street Books, as long as we …

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