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A Message from Scholastic on U.S. Book Fairs | Scholastic Media Room
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Is it wrong to buy my kids "read banned books" shirts?
Joking, but only sort of. I'm so irritated that this is the world they are growing up in. That I'm going to have to have conversations with them about why people are trying to restrict what they can learn based on bigotry and why that is wrong. There are so many other things they could be worrying about, I hate that we have this as an additional and completely unnecessary distraction.
Completely understand Scholastic's move here. It's unfortunate in a vacuum but on the other hand I'm very glad they aren't simply dropping these titles entirely.
It’s never wrong to teach your kids how to resist fascism
It's not wrong, don't be joking.
If your kids have read (or you have read to them) some banned books, and agree the reasons they're banned are wrong, you can buy the shirts, with the caveat that they can only wear them when you're there to protect them against anyone who reacts with violence. And if they're old enough to have their own battles with society, maybe you could get yourself a shirt which supports that cause.
While this is fucked up, and I don't support the bans, ever generation has it's banned books that are essentially harmless. I'm 37 and remembered hearing about Catcher In The Rye being banned and I thought it was going to be something raunchy. I read some of it years later and was like "this is it?!"
I love that Scholastic is standing strong. My mom still has a magnet on her fridge that I bought for her like 30 years ago at a book fair that says "I love you, Mom!". The book fairs were the shit back in the day.