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In 2015, it was announced the Nimona by ND Stevenson would be adapted into a movie by Blue Sky. It was delayed multiple times, and the studio was acquired by Disney in 2019. Two years later, Disney shut down Blue Sky Studios and the project was cancelled after it was about 75% complete. Former Blue

While book banning and censorship attempts in the U.S. have been at an unprecedented high in the last two years, they’re also not new. In 2013, library science graduate student Jarrett Dapier filed a Freedom of Information Act request that made public the Chicago Public School district’s attempt to quietly remove Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

There’s something about queer poetry that soothes the soul. Poetry, by its very nature, breaks boundaries and pushes against what we’re taught as the “rules” for writing. And no one pushes the boundaries of society better than queer people, especially queer artists. Maybe I’m partial. But if you also love pushing the boundaries, this list

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The squeal that I released when I heard that Deanna Raybourn — who writes one of my favorite historical mysteries series (so funny + grump and sunshine pairing!) — was writing a crime book about assassins, could be heard on the moon. I was so excited that the day I was able to get my

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It’s National Library Week, and as is tradition, the American Library Association (ALA) highlighted the top ten books challenged in the U.S. over the last year. The list, which includes the reasons for those book challenges, shows what has been clear for over a decade: books with queer characters, characters of color, or book written

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Students in Williamson County, Tennessee, have experienced near non-stop changes to the books and resources available to them this school year. Thanks to Moms for Liberty’s relentless campaigns locally, books continue to be challenged and removed throughout the district. This week, the district took even more draconian censorship measures. In response to a couple of

The Hugo Awards is the biggest science fiction award in the world of books, and it has been running since 1953. The winners are chosen by popular vote of members of the World Science Fiction Society, and they are announced at WorldCon. This year, the organization received 1,368 nominating ballots, which have been narrowed down

On March 28, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law House Bill 1557, a bill called “Parental Rights in Education” by its supporters and the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by its detractors. It states: Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade

Charlotte Brontë is best known for writing Jane Eyre, but before that, she wrote poetry for her and her sisters’ toy soldiers in a remote English village. One of these poetry collections, written by the author when she was thirteen, has resurfaced after its last sighting in 1916. The miniature book is 15 pages long, dated December

Patricia MacLachlan, celebrated author of children’s literature and recipient of the prestigious Newbery Medal, died March 31 at the age of 84. MacLachlan, born Patricia Marie Pritzkaum on March 3 1938, wrote over 60 books in a career that spanned over four decades. Among her most beloved works is Sarah, Plain and Tall, a novel

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In honor of National Library Week and to keep the conversation about book censorship going, EveryLibrary is hosting a free round table with authors whose works have been targeted. Tune in Thursday, April 6, at 8 pm Eastern for the conversation with Alex Gino (author of Melissa), Ashley Hope Pérez (author of Out of Darkness),

The American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom is one organization that keeps track of formal book challenges and bans across the country. They have announced that their final count for number of challenges in 2021 was 729 challenges representing 1,597 individual books. This is far from a complete picture: only some of the formal

More than 1,000 Ukrainians — many of them children— have been killed and more than four million displaced as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In response, Book Riot is matching donations up to $5,000 USD to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF). Scroll to the bottom of the post to learn

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