I realized a while back that you work for my library system and can I just say, I am extremely grateful and proud to know that you're working there. 💗 I so appreciate how much you continue to use your platform to bring attention to all this book banning hysteria because it is genuinely scary and infuriating.

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

❤️❤️❤️ thank you. That means so much.

Banning those picture books is WILD! It’s lunacy! I’ve read many of these, but put MONDAY’S NOT COMING and ALL AMERICAN BOYS on my library holds list. Thanks for doing this Ashley. I’m going to check for a banned books in Canada list, too.

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

Oooo let me know what you think when you get to them!

The fact that these bans exist in the US makes me really mad. I had books like ‘It’s Perfectly Normal’ when I was younger, and they helped me so much. I didn’t need to have uncomfortable conversations about those topics with adults and could look up relevant information on my own. (Age appropriate) sex ed starts at 10 years old where I live, and I believe it gave us the tools to protect ourselves. These bans are pure evil.

@angelaholmes8888

9 ай бұрын

Yes banning books is evil

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

It’s a shame that they want to cut access to such vital resources 😩

Wow. I mean, I’ve been hearing about banned books my whole life of course, and have read and enjoyed a bunch of them…but it seems like it’s escalated to whole new levels of paranoia and hate. It’s so sad! If I had kids, you can bet we’d be reading these. So instead I’m going to read them all (and will check out your videos from last year and I hope you do a sequel this year with the rest you wanted to list). Also, I’m a newish stepmom to a 14 year old boy and we live in a small mostly white, traditionally Christian town-I think I’ll be collecting a nice little library of some of these books for him to have access to and encourage him to read and discuss them with his Dad and I. …Thank you for shining a light on these books!

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

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the picture books had my jaw on the floor. absolutely unreal. thank you so much for using your platform to speak on this.

Thank you so much for making this list, it was nothing like I expected. Seeing so many picture books that are meant to teach self-love or celebrate cultures is heartbreaking. At this point there's no disguising that bigots are banning books about Everyone Who Isn't Them because they haven't figured out how to ban real people yet. Banning books about the people they want to control feeds them validation for their worldview and a sense of power over society. While we're exhausted by them, they're invigorated to push harder with every "victory" in suppressing art, information and support for others.

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

Yessss for your statement about validation!!! That’s so freaking true. The control is wild!

I was just going through Libby banned book section and saw Hair Love and some of the other books you mentioned and it us just crazy to me because I read Hair Love awhile as go and still don't understand why it's banned. It's hust madness to me😮😢

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

I don’t understand it either 😩

Hair Love being challenged What?!?! It is such a wonderful book full of love ! I read it to my fourth grade class the beginning of the school year and we talk about it all the time! My class is a very diverse group of kids. After that we read Frizzy by Claribel A Ortega! We all loved it so much we compared the books and talk about message with both books. It was a great discussion that will continue to grow in my classroom and I’m loving it! It is so sad to see amazing stories being challenged or banned! Great video! Thanks for sharing!

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching love ❤️

I went to an independent book store (in WI) this weekend and they told me the community over banned the picture book No David because it has the boy running away from the bath naked and shows his behind... I also read an article that said most of the bans were instigated by 11 people across the country which is just terrible.

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

😩😩 I saw Kelly Yang talk about that on her Instagram the other day!

There is a group trying to get Fry Bread removed from my local public library because it promotes CRT. I can't imagine anyone challenging it has actually read it. It's seriously just about celebrating Fry Bread!

@nicoswanmakes

9 ай бұрын

Wait, what??? CRT? Wow! I totally missed that. We read that one often-ish and I've never seen it.

@readingwithrebeccanicole

9 ай бұрын

I couldn't find it either when I read it. Unless they mean the note in the back that talks about the history of natives in the US. But like, that's not CRT either

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

Wait….what?!?

Thank you for sharing these with us.❤

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching love ❤️

Thank you so much for making videos like this.

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching!

These are books I need to read. Thanks for sharing Ashley.

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching love ❤️

people are so scared of exposing their children to the concept of them not being the main character of ever story... like, in what mind do they think that asking PICTURE BOOKS about validating someone's journey to self-acceptance and appreciation, and a BIPOC of them experiencing their culture through their relationship with their grandparents, is not going to be percieved as being prejudiced and racists af?!?!???!

Thank you so much for creating this video. I completely agree with you. All experiences and cultures are valid. ❤

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching ❤️

Such a good list. Not so Pure & Simple has stuck with me for a long time. All American Boys was one of my favorite audiobooks ever. Oh, and there's my absolute favorite, Monday's Not Coming. (Speak was good and I haven't read any of Morrison's writing, which is a tragic failing on my part.) So sad that these picture books are challenged. Like..Fry Bread? Celebrating their experiences as Natives and banning their experiences? Ick. Let's keep making children of color feel bad for existing.

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

EXACTLY! A child’s mere existence and celebration of their culture is now a problem. I don’t get it.

we studied The bluest Eye in school. It is an incredible book, i am even thinking of re-reading it again. Also all of these books sound really great.

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

They’re such amazing stories!

Sharing on my Facebook Page. 👏🏾

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

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I am so shocked that half of the books that you showed are on that list. That's crazy to me 🤯

@angelaholmes8888

9 ай бұрын

Yeah it is

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

It is smh 🤦🏾‍♀️

I own Speak in novel and graphic form. I love that book. NEW KID is another favorite I have read a few times. I cannot believe those pictures books are up for ban

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

Yesssss it’s mind blowing

Fry Bread! Hair Love?!!!! Waaawwwww.. I'm FLOORED

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

I was too when I found out 😩😞

It blows me away that these books would be challenged/banned, but especially those picture books!

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

The pictures were so shocking to me too but at this point a part of me shouldn’t be surprised. Smh.

The fact that these books have been banned or challenged just does not make sense to me (same for book banning in general), it's completely wild. Thank you for this video!

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

It’s really wild smh 🤦🏾‍♀️

They're banning picture books?! That's wild and out of control! I agree with what you said that if it's not in line with cis white Christian then it has to be banned which infuriates me. I am cis and white, but am Spiritual (had problems with the Protestants and what they were preaching) and it makes me mad because all books teach us something. I loved Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson and she's one of my favorite authors after reading that. She brought a reality I will never know, but am understanding. It's true, that when a black child goes missing it's swept under the rug, but if it's a white child the whole damn neighborhood is out looking for that white kid. It's terrible and the many missing cases of Native American women, I mean, why? I do have All American Boys, but I haven't read it yet. This will be an interesting read and be similar in some respects to Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro which had white police using force against the black community especially some who were young adults. That was a five star book and to me is based in reality when you have witnessed this on TV, not real life or having to live it, but through media because of my color. I think my first taste of police brutality was watching Rodney King get beat when I was a child and asking my mom why they're hurting him. Her answer to me was because he's black and some people are racist. I was fortunate that my mom was able to talk to me about the so called birds and bees, but she let school do most of it when we were 11 years old. I think my mom would agree with me in saying that books that explain how our bodies change should never be banned because her parents never taught her about her period or sex, she had to learn about it through friends. These books are important and as I am a mom of two boys I only know so much about what a male goes through when they go through puberty. Books like these really help out parents who have a child that's a different gender from them be able to explain and understand what that child is going through. I am just hating that these books are getting banned as I love to read books that are different from my life experience, I always have since I was a kid because I wanted to travel the world and experience it. Sorry this was long, it just upsets me that insipid people who I don't think read this book which means they clearly don't understand what it's about or because they read it and it's against their religious beliefs really burn me up! They don't want their kid to read it, fine, that's your kid, but you're not going to tell me that my kids can't read it unless you're want to help support my children then maybe you'd have a way, but if you can't fork over $400 a month, you don't get a say in what my babies want to read!

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

Don’t apologize for the long post! Thank you for sharing ❤️

I nodded along with this video, because yes, it's at once anger-inducing and kind of baffling. I know why the people behind these challenges and bans are doing it--white supremacy myths and racism--but these books are so important and so fun to read as well. Fry Bread is a lovely example of that, and I can't understand the hate someone has in them to want to ban such books that are so life-affirming and beautiful (not to say books that aren't that should be banned or anything). It's not right to try and take away these resources from us all, and it shouldn't be allowed.

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

It shouldn’t be allowed at all!

Lots of books I'd like to read📚

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

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I am a white, straight, cis gendered person. Having said that, I CANNOT UNDERSTAND what is going on in America right now. People are literally pushing for only white men to have rights. They are banning books just for having black or gay characters. My heart breaks for the state of our Country and how people being treated.

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

I don’t understand it either. It’s awful.

@thechubbypuertorican917

8 ай бұрын

Its a ridiculous assumption that its only straight white men. Men and women of many cultures, colors and faiths disagree with what you as a liberal white woman are pushing onto children. In fact this push for a no accountability state of education in its entirety is directed from women, primarily white women like yourself. So please spare those of us in the tanner than khaki crowd who don’t agree with what you teach children your feigned outrage. You know exactly what is happening in American right now: We have had enough of you dominating the discussion, and you can’t stand to be confronted.

I'm here for books but the hair is giving 🤲🏾❣️

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

Thanks loveeee! 😩💕

I’m sending you love (:

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

Sending you love back! ❤️

@chocolateoreo6489

9 ай бұрын

@@BookishRealm Aw thank you💜

Those picture books are all phenomenal!!! what the... 🤬

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

Right?!?

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@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

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A dear friend teaches critical race theory at our law school here. Adults barely understand it. They are definitely not teaching it in k-12.

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

THANK YOU! SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE IGNORANT PEOPLE IN THE BACK!

I really loved Not So Pure and Simple and read it on your recommendation a few years back. My guess is maybe it had been banned and/or challenged because one of the main characters is gay but also wtf 😬

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

When I tell you I was so shocked to see it on that list!!!! It’s not even one I had on my radar of being challenged.

@themusicsnob

9 ай бұрын

@@BookishRealm I genuinely think people aren’t even reading the books but are just going off internet lists of what someone told them was inappropriate 😱

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

@@themusicsnob I couldn’t agree more because some of the titles literally blow my mind once I find out that they’ve been challenged and/or banned.

The bluest eyes is really good it doesn't deserve to get banned that's so wrong

Jason Reynolds is just a great writer.

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

Loveeeeee him so much

good vid. can you have a video about history of central banking and similar books to it

@ghanshyamsingh3653

9 ай бұрын

💀🤣💀...I'm "?"

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

Lol I’m so confused 😂

@peakinyou

9 ай бұрын

@@BookishRealm 😀. I mean a review on history of central banking by Stephen mitfors and also give recommendations of books similar to the aforementioned book. Thank you

@ghanshyamsingh3653

9 ай бұрын

@@peakinyou Well...not speaking on her behalf but I don't think this is the kind of non-fiction review channel you looking for! She majorly reviews fiction and some non-fiction biographies...not exactly textbook non-fiction!!! Just saying 💙🤗

@peakinyou

9 ай бұрын

@@ghanshyamsingh3653 ok thanks. I appreciate

I will never understand banned books

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

I don’t think I will either smh

Speak is an important book hopefully it's helped other victims of sexual assault

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

Yesss! It has stuck with me for such a long time and I get angry every time I see it get challenged.

I will truly never understand why books get banned.

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

Me neither…there’s no middle ground for me when it comes to this

hmmm a book about fry bread? or about hair? they are banned.

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

Huh?

@claudiabottom4086

9 ай бұрын

@@BookishRealm it is amazing they would be banned.

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

@@claudiabottom4086 ohhh lol I read that completely wrong! Yeaaaaaaa…I literally felt my blood pressure sky rocket when I saw that.

New Kid? NEW KID!? how is that banned? I can at least see the flawed reasoning behind some of the others, but NEW KID!?

@forsidious

9 ай бұрын

Okay just also got to the picture books - absolutely ridiculous. I swear these people want kids to hate themselves. There's no other explanation.

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

No explanation smh

This is upsetting my spirit!!! Hair love??? Really??? Y’all really can’t handle a SHRED of black joy huh? Racists see us loving ourselves and they’re SICK

@BookishRealm

9 ай бұрын

Yup…they think that by us loving ourselves that we’re intentionally making others feel left out which makes no damn sense.