You're Telling My Kids They Can't Read This Book?

When a colleague's bookstore closes due to book-banning, Andrew Laties is assigned the task of explaining how children's-book creators brought thousands of diverse books into schools and homes over the past several decades, and how today's reactionary backlash can be resisted. Revealing the perspectives of authors, publishers, educators, librarians, parents, students, and booksellers, Laties urges readers to join the battle against book-banning by launching community book festivals, by self-publishing, and by engaging in civic and journalistic activism. Laties draws on his forty years of experience in bookselling to prove that writing and publishing are unstoppable forces for personal freedom and social transformation.