Back to Blog
A school would typically refer the complaint to the school board, board members and school administrators would decide on a review process, “and at a certain point an attorney would step in and say, ‘Hey folks, FYI, it’s against the Constitution to remove this book from the school library,’ and that would put an end to it, for the most part.”Įarlier challenges, too, were usually by an individual parent or citizen “wanting to ‘protect’ their own child from the book,” Richardson continued. Earlier challenges were mostly handled locally, he explained. “It really feels that the landscape has changed fairly dramatically,” Richardson said. Justin Richardson (L) and Peter Parnell (R), photos by each other, courtesy of Simon & Schuster is different from anything they’ve seen before, they told me in an interview. Yet the current surge of book bans and challenges sweeping through the U.S. Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell’s award-winning picture book, And Tango Makes Three (Simon & Schuster), based on the true story of two male penguins who hatch an egg together, has been one of the most-challenged books in the country since shortly after it was published in 2005.
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |