An Alabama public library mistakenly added a children’s picture book to a list of potentially inappropriate titles because the author’s last name is “Gay,†the library’s director said.
“Read Me a Story, Stella,†a children’s picture book by Canadian author Marie-Louise Gay, was added to a list of books flagged for potential removal from the children’s section of the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library because of “sexually explicit†content.
But the book, which is about a pair of siblings reading together and building a dog house, should not have been on the list and was only added because of the keyword “gay,†Cindy Hewitt, the library’s executive director told
AL.com on Sunday.
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My MIL is a public librarian back in AL.
She has had to pull the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" from the shelves and place it behind the counter so that only adults can access it.
Due to a change in policy for library funding in AL, libraries will have to pull books deemed "inappropriate for children".
This is simple censorship.
This is happening across conservative states.
A bill failed this year in AL that would criminalize librarians and a new bill with supposedly clarified language has been filed for 2025.
This issue (republican censorship) should probably get its own thread.
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