Archive - The Beautiful and the Banned: Children's Book Classics

Empathy and Anti-Racism in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden

It’s No Secret: The Book's Already "Decolonized"

Apr 21 •

Cultural Appropriation: The Ants Go Marching One by One

Children's Songs and Contemporary Life

Apr 2 •

February 2024

Sometimes a Doll is Only a Doll:

Raggedy Ann and Andy Compete in the Non-Racist Category

Feb 28 •

“An Egregious Racial Stereotype”

The Brooklyn Mom Egregiously Misreads

Feb 13 •

January 2024

A Wolf in Wolf’s Clothing

Don’t read this book to children

Jan 29 •

Asian Fusion, not “Cultural Insensitivity”

Fairy Tales Getting a Bad Rap

Jan 4 •

A private space for us to converse and connect

Jan 3 •

December 2023

The Anti-Racist Little Black Sambo

Helen Bannerman's Original

Dec 8, 2023 •

November 2023

If I Ran the Publishing Industry

We wouldn't mistake caricature for racism

Nov 10, 2023 •

Take a Ride Down Mulberry Street

And to think anyone saw racism

Nov 1, 2023 •

October 2023

Mighty Elizabite: Not Yet Banned

A Fable of Adjustment

Oct 23, 2023 •

Gender-Nonconforming Children’s Classics

They’ve Been Under Your Nose the Whole Time

Oct 14, 2023 •

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