See what Scholastic Book Fair organizers said about the company's recent announcement that it will no longer separate inclusive titles.
Amy Ignatow has been organizing the Scholastic Book Fair at her children's school for seven years. She loves the fair, whether it's the smell of new books or the reactions of children finding ways into worlds they didn’t know existed.
“We are seeing less and less of what used to happen, which was an individual parent would see their student reading a book and look at it and have questions about it and take it to a teacher or librarian to have a discussion,” Deborah Caldwell-Stone, the director of the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, told CNN.
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