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Submit ReviewGraphic novels and comic books sales in the U.S. have grown in recent years, but the format is still a librarians-strike-back-against-comics-bans.html">"prime target" for book ban lists.
Maia Kobabe's award-winning graphic memoir Gender Queer was named the top challenged book of 2022 and 2021 by the American Library Association. Jerry Craft, Connecticut native and the author of graphic novel New Kid, also found his book on ban lists.
This hour, we hear from the national and state Library Association about this important and often-undervalued format. Newtown recently saw book-banning-flamer-blankets-18112340.php">challenges to two graphic novels. We hear from local librarian and Immediate Past President of the Connecticut Library Association, Douglas Booth.
Plus, one youth librarian describes the explosion of interest in graphic novels she’s seeing in Simsbury.
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