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A public library system in Alabama flagged a children’s picture book as potentially “sexually explicit” because the author’s last name is “Gay.” The picture book, “Read Me a Story, Stella,” by Marie-Louise Gay is about a girl named Stella who teaches her younger brother the joys of reading, according to the book’s description. The book is volume 7 in a popular series that has sold 2 million copies in 10 languages.
Karen Li, the publisher of Groundwood Books, said in an email Tuesday that the company is “deeply disturbed by the autocratic and uninformed censorship of books in the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library system.
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