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Books About Racism and Police Violence Fill Out List of ‘Most Challenged’ Titles
After a year dominated by protests against police killings of Black Americans, the books on the list of the most frequently challenged titles of 2020 reflected the movement — and the backlash to it.
“The Hate U Give” can be found on The New York Times bestseller list as well as on some banned books list.Credit...Rogelio V. Solis/Associated Press
April 16, 2021Updated 11:22 a.m. ET
When the American Library Association released its list of the 10 most frequently banned or challenged books of 2020, it was no surprise to Angie Thomas that her debut novel, “The Hate U Give,” had made its return to the list for a third appearance.
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Ben Barnes as The Darkling/General Kirigan and Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov in Shadow and Bone (Photo credit: Netflix)
“The more I travel, the more I learn that where you are doesn’t matter nearly as much as who you’re with,” says sharpshooter Jesper Fahey (Kit Young), one of the major characters in Netflix’s
Shadow and Bone, as he flirts with a teen stablehand at the Little Palace. The show, adapted from Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse series of young-adult fantasy novels, takes place primarily in parts of Ravka and Ketterdam. Jesper is from Novyi Zem, a fictional world modeled after Australia and the United States; Jesper is both Indigenous/aboriginal and proudly queer, making time for a hook-up with the stablehand in the middle of a planned heist. The series’ characters are pulled from both the Shadow and Bone trilogy and the Six of Crows duology, and its first season course-corrects a shortcoming of the trilogy that Bardugo acknowledged in a 2016 interview: “My first book,
AustraliaNileTasmaniaUnited-statesRussiaRavkaTul-skaya-oblastAmericanWylan-van-eckNovyi-zemShu-hanBen-barnesIn this 2018 photo provided by Children’s Aid, Nina Crews, illustrator of “A Girl Like Me,” reads to children at an early childhood education center. (Adriana Alba/Children’s Aid via AP)
CHICAGO (AP) — In the world of children’s books, villagers can protect their water from a black snake, dark skin is as beautiful as the night sky, and a little girl’s two puffs of hair can make her feel like she’s floating above the clouds.
Kids are seeing more of these possibilities in the books they read as authors make a bigger push to reflect the diversity around them. Racial diversity in children’s books has been picking up since 2014, reversing a 25-year plateau, according to Kathleen T. Horning, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Cooperative Children’s Book Center.
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In this November 2019 photo provided by Blossom Blue Studios, author Angela Joy poses with her 2020 book, "Black is a Rainbow Color," in Long Beach, Calif. Seeing the lack of diversity in children's books, Joy said she felt a responsibility to her community to write this book. (BlossomBlueStudios.com via AP) March 16, 2021 - 7:14 AM
CHICAGO - In the world of children's books, villagers can protect their water from a black snake, dark skin is as beautiful as the night sky, and a little girl's two puffs of hair can make her feel like she's floating above the clouds.
Kids are seeing more of these possibilities in the books they read as authors make a bigger push to reflect the diversity around them. Racial diversity in childrenâs books has been picking up since 2014, reversing a 25-year plateau, according to Kathleen T. Horning, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madisonâs Cooperative Childrenâs Book Center.
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