Banned Books Awareness: Singapore’s Culture War

July 19, 2014 R. Wolf Baldassarro 4

Singapore’s National Library Board has been busy as of late- stopping citizens from reading. Books and comics have been on their hit list because they contain same-sex issues in their content. The organization last week withdrew from libraries the books and Tango Makes Three, which has been covered previously, and […]

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Banned Books Awareness: “The Family Book”

June 4, 2012 R. Wolf Baldassarro 0

Todd Parr has written over 30 children’s books, and he is the winner of two National Parenting Publication Awards, as well as three Oppenheim Gold Awards; but his The Family Book (preschool-grade 2; 2004) has stirred up some controversy. In a whimsical, engaging way, the daily lives of all kinds of […]