Tag: children’s books

Banned Books Community Read Aloud

September 14, 2022 admin

As part of Banned Books Week, we’ve invited community guests to read excerpts from favorite children’s books that have recently been banned or challenged to “see what all the fuss is about.” All ages are welcome.

Banned Books Week is an annual, national celebration of your freedom to read, held September 18 – 24 this year. The theme of this year’s event is “Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us.” Learn more about Banned Books week on our website at chapelhillpubliclibrary.org/banned-books.

Banned Book Party

August 25, 2022 admin

Join us on the library lawn for an educational celebration of banned and challenged books. There will be games and activities relating to banned books with fun prizes and more.

Listen to banned children’s books, create your own blackout poem, and learn about how the library bill of rights stands in opposition to censorship of books and other materials.

All ages event. Attendees are encouraged to bring chairs or blankets for the story portion of the program.

Program will be moved indoors to the children’s room if weather is poor.

Banned Books Week is the annual celebration of the freedom to read. The event is sponsored by a coalition of organizations dedicated to free expression, including American Booksellers for Free Expression, American Library Association, American Society of Journalists and Authors, Amnesty International USA, Association of University Presses, Authors Guild, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), Freedom to Read Foundation, GLAAD, Index on Censorship, National Book Foundation, National Coalition Against Censorship, National Council of Teachers of English, PEN America, People For the American Way Foundation, PFLAG, and Project Censored. It is endorsed by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Banned Books Week also receives generous support from HarperCollins Publishers and Penguin Random House.