Welcome to Using Graphic Novels in Education, an ongoing feature from CBLDF that is designed to allay confusion around the content of graphic novels and to help parents and teachers raise readers. In this column, we examine graphic novels, including…
Category: Education
In Defense of Smoking Scarecrows
Last week, we reported on the controversy that erupted over Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s The Scarecrows’ Wedding, which depicts a smoking scarecrow. Donaldson and Scheffler are also the creative force behind The Gruffalo, one of the most beloved children’s…
Brunswick County Superintendent Stands Behind Part-Time Indian
This week, Superintendent Edward Pruden released a letter that he sent to Frances Wood, the woman who is leading a campaign against Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian in Brunswick County, North Carolina. In the letter,…
CBLDF Executive Director to Speak About the Comics Code at London’s Orbital Comics
Next week, CBLDF Executive Director Charles Brownstein takes the fight for the freedom to read to London, where he’ll speak at the British Library on August 17. At 7:30 p.m. on August 14, he’ll join comics fans at Orbital Comics…
Parents Fume Over Smoking Scarecrow
First it was Santa Claus, then Bone. Now some parents are calling for the censorship of a new book by British children’s author Julia Donaldson because it shows a scarecrow smoking a cigar. Even though The Scarecrows’ Wedding portrays smoking…
CBLDF Executive Director Takes Fight for the Right to Read to London
On August 17, CBLDF Executive Director Charles Brownstein will take CBLDF’s fight for the freedom to read on another international trip, this time to the United Kingdom for “Sex, Censorship and Sensibility” at the British Library Conference Centre in London.…
Free Speech Groups Launch Cameron Post Essay Contest For Delaware High School Students In Response to Book Censorship
Eight organizations concerned about free speech and education are inviting high school students in Delaware to write a 250-500 word essay saying what they think school board members should know about Emily M. Danforth’s YA novel, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, before…
Looking for Alaska Retained in Waukesha, Two More Books Challenged
We have another good news/bad news situation in Waukesha, Wisconsin, where a school district review committee last week unanimously rejected a parental challenge to John Green’s Looking for Alaska. But the challengers plan to appeal that decision to the full…
SDCC 2014: Sunday Events with CBLDF!
This is it! Today wraps up fours days worth of comics, parties, panels and more as SDCC draws to a close! Maximize your fun with CBLDF’s ever-popular and always entertaining Live Art Jam, and run by booth 1920 for exclusive…
SDCC 2014: Saturday Events with CBLDF
It’s Saturday at SDCC, and CBLDF has our most action packed day of the con with signings, panels, and the CBLDF Live Art Auction. Let’s take a look… SIGNINGS We’re delighted to host some of our favorite creator supporters at…