DEY continues to resist the attempts to censor children’s literature that explores race, gender, sexual orientation, and the truth about our country’s history. In an effort to support early childhood educators, parents, and advocates, we are launching the DEY Banned Book Club. We will feature short videos of banned early childhood books that we encourage you to read to young children. Reading to children about complex topics is the best way to build a foundation for their ability to make sense of things now and work to address them when they are older.
Check out our Banned Book Club feature videos!
Denisha Jones shares the Social Justice Books 13 Guiding Principles Book lists. Find out how you can teach the Black Lives Matter at School Black Woman principle during Women’s History Month
DEY ED Denisha Jones features A is for Activist! Check out this fantastic ABC book that helps children celebrate social justice, equal rights, environmental justice, and more!
Teacher, author, and parent Jesse Hagopian shares Rosa by Nikki Giovanni.
DEY National Advisor Heather Bernt Santy shares her love of the book Worm Loves Worm.
DEY National Advisor Peter Rawitsch shares his love of the book I Am Jazz, the true story of Jazz Jennings, who knew at age two that she was transgender. Peter reminds us that reading I Am Jazz will not make anyone transgender, but it will help someone who feels different know that being different is okay.
DEY National Advisor Laleña Garcia is back with another Banned Book Club feature. This time she shares her love of the book Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes!
DEY National Advisor Laleña Garcia shares why she loves reading this book to her kindergarten students.
DEY National Advisor Dodah Yirusha features Hair Love for the DEY Banned Book Club.
DEY National Advisor Melinda Marshall features Neither for the DEY Banned Book Club.
Michele Hemingway Pullen shares Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness.
Ann Rickets promotes the book All Are Welcome as part of the DEY Banned Book Club.
Matt Damon, son of DEY’s founder and Board President Nancy Carlsson-Paige, shares the inspiring yet widely banned children’s book Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean Michel-Basquait by Javaka Steptoe.
DEY’s Executive Director, Denisha Jones, shares one of her favorite banned children’s book Sulwe.
DEY Project Coordinator Zoe Kim has curated a list of Banned and Challenged Books from the following sites:
Here are 50 books Texas parents want banned from school libraries- NBC News
PEN America index of school book bans – 2023-2024
PEN America index of school book bans – 2022-2023
American Library Association Book Ban Data
Marshall Libraries Banned Books
Would you like to join the Banned Book Club and make a feature? Select a book from the list that has not been featured (we highlight the featured books), record a 60-120 second video sharing the book, what you like about it, and why young children should read it, and send the recording to Zoe@dey.org!
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