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The prohibited wagon will hand out 30 titles from picture books to adult non-fiction. All of these are currently banned or challenged in US state schools and libraries. The banned wagon also has a QR code, and all scans donate the book via the first book to the community in need. Anyone who contributes can include notes about prohibited books they love.
“This week isn’t just for celebrations, it’s about action,” said SkipDye, chairman of Penguin Random House’s Intellectual Freedom Task Force. “Staying together as publishers, authors, educators, librarians, students and readers will ensure that the shelves remain filled with diverse ideas and perspectives and that the next generation will grow with the freedom to explore them.”
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“Books and stories are crucial to our identity, our history and our future,” said Alyssa Taylor, director of brand marketing at Penguin Random House. “We will take the banned wagons to Washington, DC and Philadelphia, and help protect all American access to books that have two iconic cities in our country’s history and are free to read, think and learn.”
Here are some of the books given this year:
- I know why a caged bird sings By Maya Angelou
- Handmade tale Margaret Atwood
- Giovanni’s room By James Baldwin
- This is your time By Ruby Bridge
- My two border towns By David Bowles, painted by Erica Meza
- Hair Love Illustrations by Matthew A. Cherry and Vashti Harrison
- Name bottle By Yangsook Choi
- Mango Street House By Sandra Cisneros
- The story of colonization and the Wampanoag By Linda Coombs
- Young girl’s diary Anne Frank
- Changes sing By Amanda Gorman, painted by Lauren Long
- The flaws of our stars By John Green
- 1619 Project Edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones by Caitlin Roper, Ilene Silverman and Jake Silverstein
- I’m jazz Illustrations by Jessica Hersel, Jazz Jennings and Sherag MacNicolas
- Kit Runner By Khaled Hosseini
- How to Become an Anti-Drugologist Ibram X. Kendy
- Family, family, family! Suzanne Lang and Max Lang
- Last night at the Telegraph Club Malinda Lo
- Beloved Toni Morrison
- Rainbow Parade Emily Neilson
- 1984 George Orwell
- I was born ready Painted by Jodie Patterson and Charell Pinkney Barlow
- All are welcome Painted by Alexandra Penfold and Suzanne Kaufman
- I’m not your perfect Mexican daughter Erica L. Sanchez
- Lacks from Henrietta’s immortal life By Rebecca Skloot
- Born behind a bar By Padma Venkatraman
- The heck we are temporarily gorgeous By Ocean Voon
- Slaughterhouse-Five By Kurt Vonnegut
- Brown girl dream By Jacqueline Woodson
- Nickel boy Colson Whitehead
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