Don’t comply with censorship in advance

In his recently published short book of essays, Mac Barnett emphasized the importance of children finding their experiences and emotions reflected in the stories they read. His observation was made against a backdrop of ever-increasing attempts to remove books from libraries that disproportionately target books by authors of color and authors who are LGBTQIA+. I’m concerned by proposed federal legislation, H.R. 7661, that would essentially act as a national book ban. It’s important that librarians and educators not comply with censorship in advance. It’s also important that literary reviewers and critics don’t inadvertently give censors the tools with which to ban more books.
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