Discussion: “This is an effort to push kids back in the closet and they don’t care if they kill themselves there.” Censorship and Book Banning Around the World

This year at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair I identified three major themes that came up many times in the course of the schedule and program:

Ukrainian children’s literatureAI and how it may affect children’s illustrationCensorship

To the latter topic, I was able to attend a very interesting panel entitled “Censorship of Books: what is the state of children’s book banning around the world and what is being done?” The topic itself is interesting, but I was particularly intrigued beca...