Over on Book Riot this week…

 

• The High Plains Library District in Colorado created a new programming policy that opens the door to censorship. A librarian whistleblower was fired for highlighting it.

 

• New board books for the first half of 2022.

 

• A host of beautiful metal bookmarks.

 

• Last week’s roundup of censorship news offers up the week’s challenges, as well as a look at why these challenges are happening. It’s all part of the takedown of public education in America. You just have to follow the money.

 

Over on Book Riot this week…

 

• How and why public libraries aren’t essential services.

 

• I almost died after giving birth, and I was able to unpack some of the trauma thanks to Lucy Knisley’s Kid Gloves.

 

• A roundup of awesome library due date card goods.

 

• Have you tried your hand at Wordle yet? Here’s what Wordle is and how to play.

 

• Why was a Malcolm X biography for children rejected by a Tennessee prison?

 

• And the giant roundup of last week’s book challenges and censorship news.

 

Over on Book Riot this week…and the weeks at the end of December:

 

• Your huge quarterly roundup of winter 2022 ya books hitting shelves between now and the end of March.

 

• 2022 YA adaptations hitting big and small screens this year.

 

• 52 fun, small reading challenges for every week of the year.

 

• Enjoy these gorgeous and fun bookish hygge goods.

 

Censorship news roundups will begin again today, so I’ll include them on these posts going forward.

 

Over on Book Riot this week…

 

• 100+ YA books hitting shelves in paperback this winter.

 

• Reading Rainbow is coming back to television with an interactive component.

 

• All sorts of rad pink bookish gifts.

 

• It’s beyond time to update your bookish t-shirt collection.

 

• A look at all of last week’s censorship and book challenge news.

 

Over on Book Riot this week…

 

• The best book covers of 2021.

 

•  A look at the home Mary Shelley once lived in that’s currently for sale in London.

 

• Alice Sebold’s memoir Lucky was pulled from shelves following the exoneration of Anthony Broadwater, tried and wrongfully convicted for the rape at the center of the story.

 

• All of last week’s book censorship news, with plenty of calls to action for preparing to handle more challenges in 2022. Keep an eye out for the words “social emotional learning” being as buzzy as critical race theory.