The thing I keep thinking about is that we’re acting like all these kids are clamoring to read books in the first place. They are on screens all day, seeing god knows what, and yet we’re focused on banning books?! If your kids want to read *anything at all*, it should be celebrated. Also I fully understand that banning books is about an attempt to erase ideas and experiences. I’ve been reading the Library Book by Susan Orlean and it goes into a lot of what book banning means historically. Love this post Kolina!
Oh my god right?! How can you be mad if a kid wants to read a book?!
My 7 yo daughter and I have been reading Harry Potter. We're almost done with book 4. I know the author has said some terrible things, but reading HP has completely changed her! She's SO excited to read any chance we get. All she wants to do is be in Harry Potter world. She's understanding the power of a story and it's - wait for it - magical (had to). People want to ban HP because of witchcraft. It would be a HUGE LOSS to children around the world if those stories were inaccessible.
I forgot about The Library Book. What an incredible book! Good reminder to re-read it.
I really really love that you wrote a script. It's so important to be prepared and be able to talk about this with people/family instead of running from it (I, too, hate conflict but can't avoid this one). Speaking as an author (who spent YEARS trying to get published), it is so so so hard to get a book out into the world. There are SO many gatekeepers in the first place. The fact that a book EVER gets published is miraculous, with so much vetting from agents, publishers, editors, copy editors, etc. before it hits shelves. And then you have librarians and teachers who are trained to curate and evaluate - they LOVE kids. They're not out to indoctrinate or harm. So, anyway, TOTALLY on board with this - and thanks for the script!
Thank you, Amy! I'm totally the person who will run in the opposite direction when politics comes up (mainly because I have different views than a lot of my family and I hate being mad about that). I wish I would've known to say this stuff in response to why Dr. Seuss should be banned. But now I have it at the ready!
Wow, Kolina! This is so helpful. It's hard when we get so emotionally attached to a subject matter that it becomes hard to articulate coherent thoughts. The scripts are so helpful! And thank so much for sharing my post as well. Let's keep up the fight against book banning. 📖
The thing I keep thinking about is that we’re acting like all these kids are clamoring to read books in the first place. They are on screens all day, seeing god knows what, and yet we’re focused on banning books?! If your kids want to read *anything at all*, it should be celebrated. Also I fully understand that banning books is about an attempt to erase ideas and experiences. I’ve been reading the Library Book by Susan Orlean and it goes into a lot of what book banning means historically. Love this post Kolina!
Oh my god right?! How can you be mad if a kid wants to read a book?!
My 7 yo daughter and I have been reading Harry Potter. We're almost done with book 4. I know the author has said some terrible things, but reading HP has completely changed her! She's SO excited to read any chance we get. All she wants to do is be in Harry Potter world. She's understanding the power of a story and it's - wait for it - magical (had to). People want to ban HP because of witchcraft. It would be a HUGE LOSS to children around the world if those stories were inaccessible.
I forgot about The Library Book. What an incredible book! Good reminder to re-read it.
Thanks Molly! 🫶🏼
We're currently reading HP with the kid and it's been so fun. WITCHCRAFT??? What is this, the 1700s??
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I really really love that you wrote a script. It's so important to be prepared and be able to talk about this with people/family instead of running from it (I, too, hate conflict but can't avoid this one). Speaking as an author (who spent YEARS trying to get published), it is so so so hard to get a book out into the world. There are SO many gatekeepers in the first place. The fact that a book EVER gets published is miraculous, with so much vetting from agents, publishers, editors, copy editors, etc. before it hits shelves. And then you have librarians and teachers who are trained to curate and evaluate - they LOVE kids. They're not out to indoctrinate or harm. So, anyway, TOTALLY on board with this - and thanks for the script!
Thank you, Amy! I'm totally the person who will run in the opposite direction when politics comes up (mainly because I have different views than a lot of my family and I hate being mad about that). I wish I would've known to say this stuff in response to why Dr. Seuss should be banned. But now I have it at the ready!
Thanks so much for this!
Wow, Kolina! This is so helpful. It's hard when we get so emotionally attached to a subject matter that it becomes hard to articulate coherent thoughts. The scripts are so helpful! And thank so much for sharing my post as well. Let's keep up the fight against book banning. 📖
I'm so glad! Hopefully they will be of use next time we enter these conversations!