What people miss when talking about banned books

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🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Guest host Ayesha Rascoe is joined by NPR senior editor Barrie Hardymon and Traci Thomas, host of The Stacks podcast, to talk about banned books. They talk about why it's important for kids to discover books freely, even if that means starting a hard conversation with them. They also discuss their favorite — and least favorite — books that often show up on banned book lists.

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0:00.0	What's your favorite book?
0:01.2	My e-v-y, all about e-v-y book.
0:04.6	E-v-y's on Pokemon.
0:06.6	Oh yeah, so the all about e-v-y book.
0:09.0	Gabrielle, what's your favorite book?
0:10.8	My favorite book, it's the dinosaur one.
0:14.6	Now, Annalise, what is your favorite book?
0:18.6	Wacky Wednesday.
0:20.5	What do you like about Wacky Wednesday?
0:23.4	They're Wacky's thing, Wacky.
0:26.4	Everything was wacky.
0:28.5	Three, two, one.
0:30.5	Wake up to school.
0:34.9	Hey everybody, you're listening to It's
0:36.8	Been A Minute from NPR.
0:38.5	I'm Aisha Roscoe, Philly Inn for Sam Sanders.
0:41.7	And today we're talking about books
0:43.8	and the recent battles over some of them.
0:46.6	Now, what does society teach as children really
0:49.2	says something about what it values?
0:51.4	So it's no surprise that schools have been
0:53.8	ideological battlegrounds over and over again.
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