Prominent publishers have sent a letter to the New York City Department of Education expressing alarm that books featuring diverse characters and subjects were discarded with the trash at a Staten Island elementary school.
Authors Against Book Bans, Candlewick Press, Charlesbridge, Hachette Books, Macmillan Publishers, Simon & Schuster, and Sourcebooks also signed on. A kids book on Navajo code talkers during World War II discarded from PS 55. The sticky note reads, "dialogue on pg. 2 'Navajo is bad!'" and "pg. 5 '...white man's world?'"Schools Chancellor David Banks told reporters last week that the notes about the books’ contents were “completely unacceptable.”
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