This Disability Pride Month, PEN America has curated a list of banned books that feature characters who are neurodivergent or who have a physical, learning, and/or developmental disability.

A parent complaint about a nonbinary snail led a Virginia elementary school principal to cancel a visit by author Erica S. Perl. A former trial attorney, Perl offers a lesson in smart booking contract...

Colorado school districts will need to adopt policies about when and why library books can be taken from the shelves under a new law.

Inside me there are two wolves: the one that understands that the best activism happens behind closed doors and that everyone does what they can and that not everyone can be asked to do the same thing...

ALT: a man in a trench coat is walking on a soccer field in front of a stadium .

House Bill 636 would create committees and processes to review existing and future library books down to the school level and require reviews of all materials at book fairs -- a major funder of school...

Crosswalk buttons along the mid-Peninsula appear to have been hacked, so that when pressed, voices professing to be Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk begin speaking.

On April 3, 2025, Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, Simon & Schuster, and Sourcebooks sent a letter to Congress in support of the Institute of Library and Museum Service...

Christopher L. Eisgruber of Princeton University talks about the administration’s move to freeze billions of dollars in funding to higher education institutions.

SLJ wants to share the stories of how the loss of funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services will impact your library and community.

Children's Just Like Queen Esther by Ari Moffic and Kerry Olitzky (text) and Rena Yehuda Newman (illustration) Atara loves to wear her crown - to the library, to the dentist, even to her swim lessons. It gives her confidence, and shows the world that she is a girl, not a boy, like everyone thought at first. But when Atara reads the story of Queen Esther, on the Jewish holiday of Purim - she realises that you don't need a costume to express who you really are...

The ruling is a victory for the publishers and free speech advocates who challenged the law, but the judge’s decision is far from final.

Move comes amid broader Republican-led culture war in US as Alabama cracks down on ‘sexually explicit’ content

This feed searches my Lists approved Bluesky users for the following terms like #MSWL (Manuscript Wishlist), #artistsearch, #CallForSubmissions, #CallForArtists and similar terms. Some may be kidlit/Y...

A year-end wrap-up of middle grade books published in 2024 with stats on publisher share, genre popularity, point of view, and more!