Gay’s publicist, Kirsten Brassard, of Groundwood Books, told AL.com her client’s book has never been “mistakenly censored.”
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“Read Me a Story, Stella” by author Marie-Louise Gay was included on a list of potentially “sexually explicit” books at the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library system over the writer’s last name,The book would have been removed from the children’s section of the library system but staffers caught the error before it was taken off shelves.
“Although it is obviously laughable that our picture book shows up on their list of censored books simply because the author’s last name is Gay, the ridiculousness of that fact should not detract from the seriousness of the situation,” Brassard said in a statement.
“We understand and appreciate our community, and the needs of our collection to reflect our community,” Hewitt told the outlet. “We were never eliminating any book. We were just looking at it as a whole.”
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