PEN America tallied the variety of books banned within the U.S. through the 2021-2022 faculty yr and counted 1,648 titles. A number of the titles had been banned in multiple location, leading to greater than 2,500 bans.
Many of the books banned had been grownup or younger grownup titles, however some kids’s books had been banned as properly. Of the 1,000+ whole titles banned, 317 had been image books.
Among the many banned image books are nonfiction titles that cowl the civil rights motion and homosexual pleasure. There are additionally much less critical books centered round infants or animals. No matter their focus, although, most of them have a commonality: their foremost characters are folks of colour or a part of the LGBTQ+ group.
Beneath are essentially the most banned image books of 2021-2022, ranked in response to how usually they had been banned:
