Georgia bookstores celebrate ‘Banned Book Week’

ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) – It’s a hot-button problem, censoring sure books generally even classics. That is Banned Guide Week, the fortieth annual celebration of the liberty to learn, promoted by the American Library Affiliation.

Books are highly effective instruments.

”There’s a lot information that may be present in books,” stated Jan Bolgla proprietor of Atlanta Classic Books.

”All of us simply have this one mission to place books in folks’s fingers,” stated Kimberly McNamara proprietor of Learn it Once more Books.

This week Atlanta Classic Books and Learn it Once more Books are each celebrating Banned Guide Week at their shops.

Every bookstore has a delegated shelf for books which were banned sooner or later or one other throughout the nation, censored, or challenged, with the the explanation why they have been banned.

The picks of books in every retailer are based mostly on an inventory of banned books from the American Library Affiliation.

Some folks may imagine that celebrating banned books is provocative or offensive.

Each retailer house owners inform me, that celebrating banned books this week is about Georgia contributing to a nationwide dialogue.

In accordance with PEN America’s Index of College Guide Bans Record, two counties in Georgia have banned books. Forsyth County Faculties has 13 banned books on its checklist and Cherokee County Faculties with 11. The report lists a complete of 1,648 books banned throughout the nation.

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