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…
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Author Responds to Connecticut Ban of The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A Connecticut Superintendent is standing behind his ban of Stephen Chobsky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower despite a review committee’s recommendation otherwise and opposition from the community and free speech advocates, including CBLDF. Chbosky himself has now responded to…
Fun Home Selected as Duke University’s Core Summer Reading Book
One of the comic industry’s most debated books, Fun Home, has been selected by Duke University as its Class of 2019 Common Experience summer reading book. An autobiographical memoir, writer and artist Alison Bechdel tells her story of her distant…
Palomar Stays on Shelves in Rio Rancho
In response to one New Mexico parent’s complaint that a highly-regarded graphic novel was “child porn,” a district review committee has voted to keep the book in a high school library. One month ago local TV news station KOAT reported…
Perks of Being a Wallflower Removed from Wallingford, CT Curriculum
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is being challenged once again, this time at Sheehan High School in Wallingford, Connecticut, where it has been pulled from the freshman reading list as well as the school’s curriculum after complaints from a…
CBLDF Rises to Defend Gilbert Hernandez’s Palomar
Recently, we learned through a biased TV news report that Gilbert Hernandez’s acclaimed Hearthbreak Soup collection, Palomar, had been called “child porn” by a parent in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Today, CBLDF rose to the book’s defense by developing a…
Working Poor Challenged in Highland Park ISD
Nearly two months after a review committee in the Dallas-area Highland Park Independent School District decided not to ban Garth Stein’s The Art of Racing in the Rain from classrooms, a parent has challenged another of the seven books that…
CBLDF Joins Letter Challenging Kings Canyon’s “Removal First, Review Second” Policy
David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green might have survived a challenge in the King’s Canyon Unified School District, but the way the challenge was handled has many free speech advocates concerned. This week, CBLDF-sponsored Kids Right to Read Project sent a…
Jaycee Dugard’s Memoir Removed from Middle School Classroom Libraries
After being reviewed by teachers of the Northview Michigan public middle school system, it has been decided that copies of Jaycee Dugard’s memoir A Stolen Life will not be included in seventh-grade classroom libraries. A New York Times bestselling autobiographical…