As Banned Books Week opens, Penguin Random House is taking some of its most heavily attacked books on the road.
PEN: US School-Year Book Bannings Jump 33 Percent Over Last Year
The surge in book bannings has affected at least 1,207 authors, 268 illustrators, and 14 translators, per PEN America’s new report.
PRH Rolls Out Banned Books Resources: ‘Let Kids Read’
Penguin Random House’s new ‘banned books resources site’ is a consumer-facing compendium of connections, assists, and ideas.
A ‘Freedom to Read’ Campaign Amid US Censorship
Seventy years after being written, the ‘Freedom to Read Statement’ has been reissued amid efforts at book bannings in the United States.
ALA: Book Bannings in the USA Broke All Records in 2022
A 38-percent jump, year-over-year: A record 2,571 unique titles were targeted for censorship in the United States in 2022, ALA reports.
ALA’s Tracie Hall Receives the US National Book Awards’ Literarian Award
Tracie Hall, the first Black woman executive director of the American Library Association, receives this year’s lifetime literary award.
Batchelder Award: Submissions Now Must Name #TranslatorsOnTheCover
A prominent awards program in the United States will now reject a submission that doesn’t properly #NameTheTranslator.
Awards: The 2022 Youth Media Award Winners
The American Library Association’s 47 honors in the 2022 Youth Media Awards include the Newbery, Caldecott, Batchelder, and Printz prizes.
The ‘GLLI’ Translated YA Book Prize Announces 2021 Brazilian Co-Winners
The Global Literature in Libraries Initiative names two winners for 2021, both translated from Brazilian Portuguese by Larissa Helena.
Italy’s ‘Telephone Tales’ Wins the 2021 Batchelder Translation Award
Antony Shugaar’s tranlsation of 1962 Italian picture book ‘Telephone Tales’ by Gianni Rodari and Valerio Vidali wins ALA’s 2021 Batchelder Award.
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