I had accepted a position as a grader for an undergraduate children’s literature class a professor in my program was teaching. She had asked me to cover one of the lectures for her while she was out of town for an event, and the topic was one I knew well: how librarians select books to purchase for libraries. In preparation, I visited the main branch of the Riverside Public Library system to gather books that had a history of being banned. I wanted to begin the lecture by speaking to students about censorship, and I needed examples.
