In just the past few weeks, multiple kidlit authors have seen their author visits canceled. Talk on the True Story of the First Woman to Bike Around the World: CANCELED According to author Mary Boone’s piece in The Seattle Times, she was scheduled to talk about her book Pedal Pusher: How One Woman’s Bicycle Adventure Helped Change the World at the Tacoma Children’s Museum site on the U.S. Army base Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The book tells the true story of Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, the first woman to bike around the world. However, a few days before the event, Boone was told the planned talk was off because it “violated the administration’s executive order restricting so-called “radical” Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs across federal institutions.” Book Talk Celebrating Freedom to Read: CANCELED  According to BookRiot, Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin Pritchard showed up at the Country Club Elementary School in San Ramon, California to talk about the current landscape of book … Continue reading Book Bans Impact School Visits Around the Country