Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s book “Love in the Library” was inspired by how her grandparents met while they were confined to an internment camp in Idaho.
Children’s publishing house Scholastic has apologized to the Asian-American writer of a children’s book about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II for asking her to remove a reference to “virulent racism” from an author’s note.
“They wanted to take this book and repackage it so that it was just a simple love story,” Tokuda-HallShe added: “Not anything that might offend those book banners in what they called this ‘politically sensitive’ moment.” The words “virulent racism” are crossed out, as are references to “the deeply American tradition of racism.”She refused and ended up signing with Candlewick.
Warwick said in a statement that the publisher was “wrong” to have insisted on the edits, which were “not in keeping with Scholastic’s values.”
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