I was surprised to hear that BC Premier Gordon Campbell named Mary Polak to his cabinet as the Minister of Healthy Living and Sport. Whenever I hear her name I remember that she was the the Surrey School Board Chair who supported banning three kids picture books that had representations of gay and lesbian parents: [...]
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This is a fantastic and funny rant from author John Green about a high school that is requiring parental consent forms for students to read and study his first book Looking for Alaska. He describes the frank sex scene in this book as “alkward, unfun, disasterous and wholly unerotic.”
He argues:
Hank, it doesn’t take deeply [...]
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In one of the core classes in library school we had field trips to different types of libraries (public, academic, school, legal, special, etc). I had the pleasure of visiting Sylvia’s school library and was inspired by how alive the library felt and the creative projects that the students were doing. On National [...]
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Concerns that the books are “anti-God, anti-Catholic and anti-religion”.
Read more at the CBC (1, 2, 3). Make your own card catalog cards at John Blyberg’s site.
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BC writer Nikki Tate’s book Trouble on Tarragon Island was banned by the school librarian at Elizabeth Elementary in Kindersley, SK. The Globe and Mail has run two articles on this (Nov 13 and Nov 7) but you probably won’t be able to read them on their site as you need to pay for [...]
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After reading many articles (New York Times Books, Librarian.net, American Libraries) on the hullabaloo about The Higher Power of Lucky, I finally was able to get my hands on a copy of the book and read it for myself. In case you missed the kerfuffle, the word “scrotum” is one of the words that [...]
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