Challenges to Children’s Picture Books with LGBTQ Themes: A 30-Year Review

Authors

  • Jennifer Steele

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.20.2.3

Abstract

For more than thirty years, the American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has collected data regarding banned and challenged books in the U.S. Since this record keeping began, books with LGBTQ themes have made up a significant portion of the challenged books listed on the ALA’s Top 100 Most Challenged Books of the decade lists and Top 10 Most Challenged Books of the year lists.

Author Biography

Jennifer Steele

Dr. Jennifer Steele is an Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at The University of Southern Mississippi. She earned both her MLIS degree and her Ph.D. in Communication and Information Sciences from The University of Alabama.

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Published

2022-06-17

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 2 (2022): Summer

Section

Features

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