In a press release, ALA President Patricia Wong said: "We support individual parents' choices concerning their child's reading and believe that parents should not have those choices dictated by others. The number of individual books challenged in 2021 totaled 1,597. Although the 2020 number was impacted by the pandemic, which forced schools and libraries to shut down, the ALA said they don't usually get more than 500 book challenges in any given year.Īnd sometimes, those challenges contain more than one book title. It's a significant jump: Last year the group noted 156 challenges - and in 2019, there were 377. The ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom counted 729 challenges to library, school, and university materials in 2021. alone the practice goes back to Puritan times, when Thomas Morton's book New English Caanan and others opposing this way of life were tossed from Massachusetts.īut the American Library Association said Monday that this year there have been more challenges to books than they have seen since they started tracking it in 2000.
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