We have several more states to feature for the 50 State Salute to Banned Books Week. Today’s featured states are New Jersey, New Mexico, and New York! The Friends of the Metuchen Library in Metuchen, New Jersey, read, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird: Instructor Matthew Valdiviez reads a passage from William Shakespeare’s Richard II [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Banned Books Virtual Read-Out!’
October 10, 2012
50 State Salute to Banned Books Week: Alaska, Colorado, Georgia, Mississippi, and Montana
Although Banned Books Week 2012 has ended, we are pleased to continue featuring videos from states across the country in hopes that viewing them will inspire you to continue to celebrate the freedom to read any day of the year. Today’s featured states are Alaska, Colorado, Georgia, Mississippi, and Montana. Members of the Alaska Quidditch [...]
October 5, 2012
Authors speak out against censorship for the Banned Books Virtual Read-out!
This year’s Banned Books Virtual Read-out has featured wonderful writers such as Stephen Chbosky, Sara Paretsky, Dr. Carmen Tafolla, Dori Hillestad Butler–not to mention the honorary co-chair and journalist extraordinaire, Bill Moyers. Today we feature a compilation video created by the Association of American Publishers (AAP). This video features various authors speaking out against censorship [...]
October 4, 2012
Carmen Tafolla for the Banned Books Virtual Read-Out!
Happy day 5 of Banned Books Week! Today, we present Carmen Tafolla, Poet Laureate of San Antonio (TX) and the author of Curandera, a book of poetry banned in the Tucson (AZ) Unified School District in 2012. For more information on the Tucson situation, please read ALA’s Resolution Opposing Restriction of Access to Materials and [...]
October 3, 2012
Sara Paretsky for the Banned Books Virtual Read-Out!
Throughout Banned Books Week, we will continue to feature videos from both the Banned Books Virtual Read-Out and the 50 State Salute to Banned Books Week. Today we present Chicago writer, Sara Paretsky, best known for her V.I. Warshawski detective novels, who honors the life of Anne Frank by reading a poem written by Chilean [...]
