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From the July/August 2023 issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: ALA Awards.

Picture books that center LGBTQ, gay and queer characters have been targeted the most.

In a new report, The Washington Post discovered that adults seeking to ban certain children’s picture books in schools were mostly targeting titles that focus on LGBTQ characters and stories. In fact, they accounted for 75 percent of the complaints. The top reason adults were seeking to ban picture books is to stop children from reading about gay, bisexual, transexual and queer people.

This series examines who and what drive objections to K-12 texts amid a culture war over what children should read.

Miriam Toews, Waubgeshig Rice, Guy Vanderhaege, David A. Robertson and more shared messages with Shelagh on her final episodes of The Next Chapter.

Dozens of books in Tennessee public schools are being challenged. Some school boards and parents want to ban books that talk about racism, gender or sexual orientation.

The Sumner County Commission Monday took up the debate about who decides which books make it to school libraries.

Guest poster Michelle H. Martin calls Frank Morrisons

Tennessees textbook commission has wide new powers to determine which books students can and cant access in public school libraries.

With new veto power over which books can be in school libraries, Tennessee’s all-volunteer textbook commission missed its first big deadline — a symptom of a larger concern.