A thread on banned books⬇️
Currently, When Aidan Became a Brother & Sparkle Boy are two of our most banned books. On an almost daily basis, we receive Google alerts on the controversial content in these picture books, & how they are a danger to the children who read them. (1/?)
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Real challenge should invite learning new skills or advancing the purpose of your job in some way. It shouldn't just be putting out fires or fixing someone else's mistakes.
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At the library, I heard a father tell his son that he could only get a graphic novel if he got two “real books” too.
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do not do this.
‘Real books’ aren’t punishments. GNs are not frivolous treats. Let them read what they want, for the love of gods!
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I keep saying this, too! If you think a middle school kid pops down to the media center on an industrious hunt for nudies in encyclopedias and sexytimes in novels, then you have not yet met a smartphone or a middle schooler. Kids pop down to the media center to find *themselves*.
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Never in human history has it been easier for a teen to find ACTUAL pornography. It's readily available 24/7, free, takes seconds to locate, in every media form. Teens do not go to YA books for porn. They go to books to connect, be entertained, to understand themselves and others
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It's #BannedBooksWeek, and we're starting out with a rundown of action items everyone can take to fight censorship and support diverse banned books. Book bans and challenges have been at a historic high, and are only increasing. 🧵
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We welcome #BannedBooksWeek - an opportunity in these heated times to remind everyone ways that #BooksUniteUs. It's a week to talk about the importance of the #FReadom to read and what it means to our democracy and for our students.
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As we hurtle into #BannedBooksWeek I want to say this: The book banning occurring across the USA is not about the books. It's about institutionalizing discrimination against LGBTQ+ and BIPOC people, institutionalizing misogyny through policing sexuality.
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Today I heard from a parent that their son was terribly upset when he got covid, because it would ruin his 100% attendance record. At the end of the year, those with 100% get book tokens & certificates in assembly. Here’s why policies like that should stop. 1/
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...that will help students learn. Preventing these folks from doing their job is making the world worse--for students and for society. And so yes, it's painful to see LfA banned more and more. But it is more infuriating to see how hard this is making teaching and librarianship.
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Follow your library’s social media. And if you see posts being dunked on, speak up. Because sometimes your librarians can’t.
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"But the end of Empire did not bring an end to the consequences of empire."
Any help very much appreciated!
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I'm using the same library card(s). I'm signed in. I've synced. They just don't show up.
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Can't believe they are going to make a MAN queen. This woke nonsense has gone too far.
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I remember when I played Lord Asriel in 's brilliant His Dark Materials at the National Theatre years ago and an usher told me an audience member couldn't handle the fact that I was black. I asked the usher " Did she mention anything about the talking Polar Bear?"
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The "pantsless boy" is a huge hit. And now they all know what faux fur is. I'm going to be reading this all year.
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The older kids unerringly guide themselves toward the quick fatal endings. Ominous drumbeats? Yes please!
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I have a class of 6th graders that has already requested a second reading. And a kid who wanted to check it out (I had to tell him it was my own copy from home...still waiting on a library budget...)
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Cannot overstate how much of a success ENDLESSLY EVER AFTER by and has been with my elementary students this year. Librarians, don't sleep on this one! They LOVE it.
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Deserved!! Will be reading this to some classes this week. 🐸
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Not only did @HornBook put A SPOONFUL OF FROGS on the cover of their Sept/Oct magazine, they gave it a lovely starred review too! Thank you!
Check out this excerpt from the review & click the link to see the awesome cover! (Art by the amazing @verabee!) hbook.com/story/septembe
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Tennis is so cute because it’s the one context in New York City where a guy can wear a backwards hat and everyone is like: “This dude is out of his mind. He’s an absolute menace.”
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Someone (not in education) was surprised to hear that teachers have to set up their own classrooms.
She thought we had someone to do that for us and we just walk in the first day and start teaching. I had to explain it takes days of prep + physical labor. And we don’t get paid.
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THIS LIST! "Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes, The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden, Front Desk by Kelly Yang, Starfish by Lisa Fipps, Efrén Divided by Ernesto Cisneros, Refugee by Alan Gratz, and New Kid by Jerry Craft" 👏👏👏👏
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School librarians take action to promote empathy, inclusion, and community engagement in this new initiative from Cicely Lewis.
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In this comic, Sólveig Eva asks: "How much talent has gone uncelebrated because we feel entitled to women’s work?" Read more 👇 (1/4)
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I have made it my mission to unteach children that “fiction is fake.”
Here are my new definitions I started teaching today:
▪️Nonfiction = learning through information
▫️Fiction = learning through imagination
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MANAGING EDITOR AT HARPER IN 1947 WAS ASLEEP AT THE DAMN WHEEL
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Other phrases/words that are problematic/anti-Indigenous:
- Pioneer/pioneering
- circle the wagons
- on the warpath
- bury the hatchet
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Today's reminder that:
- nothing but a talking stick should be used as a talking stick
- you don't have a spirit animal (unless given one in ceremony)
- don't use "lowest on the totem pole" or "let's have a powwow" casually
- a group of friends/colleagues/etc. is not a tribe.
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Pediatrician questionnaire wants to know if we've had any alone time as adults since becoming a family of four. Does going to the bathroom count, because if so, also no.
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There is more to life than cookies, but cookies are still big part of it.
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So excited for this! For myself, and to introduce Amari to the kids at my new elementary school. 😀 twitter.com/bb_alston/stat
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Finish the first line of this song:
“Today…”
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Want to read a book that's banned in your school or town? The Brooklyn Library is making electronic editions of banned books freely available to any American teenager. It's free.
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"PUT. The FROGS. On. The SPOON." Hat tip to the for having A SPOONFUL OF FROGS by and Vera Brosgol in their library and for having it on the shelf. One of the best read-alouds of the year!
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if I were a baby who had been bathed fed sung to read to and lovingly shielded from the suffering and cruelty of this world all day at great personal cost to my caretakers I would simply go to fucking sleep
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