If you’ve been following the news recently, you’ve likely seen headlines about an escalating push to ban books in schools across the country.īe it the removal of the Holocaust graphic novel Maus from a Tennessee school district’s eighth-grade curriculum or attempts to yank classics like The Handmaid’s Tale from library shelves, incidents of grassroots (and mostly conservative) pressure against schools to control the materials children can access have seemingly grown in frequency and intensity.Īccording to a new American Library Association report, there were 330 “book challenges” in the fall of 2021, an uptick from the same periods in recent years.
