Banned Books
Baby & Toddler
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Tween
Teen
6 Ways To Celebrate Banned Books Week
In 2022, 2,571 book titles were challenged. Now more than ever, it’s essential to talk to kids about the right to read — and let them read banned books!
Tween
Teen
Banned & Challenged Books Every Tween and Teen Should Read
Ideas in books can ignite discovery, encourage empathy, and offer solace. With that in mind, here are 22 banned books worth reading for their ideas.
All Ages
Author Zetta Elliott Reflects on Her Banned Book
Kids' book author Zetta Elliott reflects on how banned books, like her own, should be shared in schools to reflect today's reality, not hide it.
Tween
Why Kids Need the Freedom To Choose the Books They Read
If we want to pass a love of reading to the next generation, we have to allow them to have joy when they read. This sometimes means reading books with fart jokes, books with wizards that defeat evil, graphic novels, series, and books that speak truths that resonate with kids. Unfortunately, these books are often banned.
Tween
Teen
12 Authors on the Banned Books They’ll Never Forget
To celebrate Banned Books Week, we asked authors to share the banned or challenged book that made a lasting impact on them as young people. Here are the books that have stayed with them through the years.
Tips & Advice
I Read Banned Books and So Do My Kids
In most areas of my life, I’m a rule-follower, but when it comes to books, I’m a subversive.
Tips & Advice
Modernization or Censorship? The Case of the Non-PC Children’s Book
Does editing out potentially upsetting material in books like Pippi Longstocking and Huckleberry Finn make them safe or strip them of their historical context?