I just found out my local library quietly pulled a book I loved from the kids' section

I was helping my niece look for a book I read to her last year, 'And Tango Makes Three'. The librarian said it wasn't in the kids' area anymore and was now in the 'parenting' section for adults only. That was the tip off... I realized I'd been wrong thinking book challenges were just noise somewhere else. They were happening right here in my town, moving books instead of outright banning them. I checked the catalog and found 4 other titles, like 'George', had been moved in the last 6 months without any public notice. I'd been ignoring the news about bans because it felt distant, but this quiet shift is how it starts. Has anyone else seen their library do this kind of soft censorship?

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the_max3mo ago

Remember when they moved all the dinosaur books because a few people said they didn't believe in them? (It was wild.) Makes you wonder what else is just gone from the shelves now.

reese862mo agoTop Commenter

What's the cutoff for "too old to remember" because I'm starting to think I missed the memo on half this stuff? I still have my old copy of "The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth" and I honestly don't know if that one's been pulled too. You can't even find the old ones at garage sales anymore, it seems like they just vanished. Makes me wonder if I should check my kids' school library before they quietly swap out everything from before 2010.

gavinm893mo ago

What happens when they move a book and nobody notices? That's how they get away with it, by making changes too small to fight over.