Comments on: Scholastic Bans Book with Lesbian Moms from Book Fairs

By: Scholastic Reverses Position to Exclude Children’s Book With Lesbian Moms - Lez Get Real

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:21:05 +0000

[...] Lesbian Mom Blogger Dana Rudolph, who was instrumental in alerting parents about Scholastics slight … said, “I am pleased Scholastic has decided to include Luv Ya Bunches in its School Book Fairs. It is unfortunate that they initially felt the need to ask Myracle to change the lesbian moms (who play only a minor role in the book) to a mom and a dad, but it is heartening to know that they listened to the more than 4000 people, LGBT and not, who signed Change.org’s petition in support of the author. The upside is that going forward, the company is on record as stating: “We are committed to a review process that considers all books equally regardless of their inclusion of LGBT characters and same sex parents.” I hope that will benefit many authors—and, more importantly, many children—in the future.” [...]

By: Julia Moulton

Julia Moulton — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:39:40 +0000

As a retired reading teacher; if scholastic books bans a books about Lesbian moms than I ban ever buying or helping at another scholastic book fair.

By: Mombian » Blog Archive » More on the Book Scholastic Banned

Mombian » Blog Archive » More on the Book Scholastic Banned — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:06:44 +0000

[...] posted Friday about Scholastic’s refusal to include Lauren Myracle’s new book Luv Ya Bunches in their [...]

By: Dana

Dana — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:49:13 +0000

Well, maybe you’ll have some opportunities for extra feedback to Scholastic. It’s probably good for them to see that not only are LGBT parents buying their books, but they’re even managing whole fairs.

By: Liza

Liza — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:05:22 +0000

Ugh.

I wish I’d known this a week ago.

I’m chair of our Scholastic Book Fair, going on last week and next. Already bought 2 books for Noah, and have spent god knows how many hours working on the fair.

Scholastic, I’ve got one school you won’t be coming back to next year.

By: Penny

Penny — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:49:25 +0000

This book should be available so that all families can discuss issues together. Like sometimes children have two mothers or fathers. No matter that the story is not about a lesbian family, it’s treated very naturally. Please reconsider sending this book to children and adults. This kind of fear makes a big deal over nothing. Our children live in a world of differences — we need to embrace them all and choose our own. I am married to a man.

By: Dana

Dana — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:47:56 +0000

Thanks, Becky! I agree–and as I understand it, the book isn’t even primarily “about” having lesbian moms. One of the characters simply has them. Not that it should matter–but it makes the fuss even less understandable.

By: Becky

Becky — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:05:33 +0000

I e-mailed them and will share this with open-minded friends and also with my school. I will ask them to contact Scholastic to ask them to offer this book wherever they sell children’s books or, if Scholastic doesn’t change its mind, to take whatever action they feel is right — including not to buy Scholastic books or to find another way to hold a book fair. Thanks for sharing this. What a (positive) drop in the bucket it would be among the thousands of books in the school library or book fair to include this one story.