Banned Books and Bake Sales: An Interview with Aya Khalil and a Look at Picture Books Tackling Censorship

Banned books aren’t new. I can think of three distinct periods of book banning within my own lifetime where they’ve surged and receded, surged and receded.

Children and teen books about banned books aren’t new. Recall that as far back as 1982, Delacorte released Nat Hentoff’s The Day They Came to Arrest the Book.

But picture books about banned books? Now THAT is new! I’ll confess that I don’t remember seeing many until this year. Now in 2023 we’ve Raj Haldar’s This Book Is Banned on the on...