Same-Sex Penguin Parenting Not an Issue in the UK

By Communications Office RSS Thu, August 16, 2007

And Tango Makes Three , the American Library Association's Most Challenged Book of 2006 , was released in paperback in the United Kingdom last month and was received with minimal squabbling and strife. According to an article published in the Guardian in May of this year, entitled "March of the penguin protestors ," in the UK "no one at the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), the Youth Libraries Group or the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is gathering data on the numbers of books removed from libraries due to complaints as the ALA does in the US. 'We don't collect figures about [books that are challenged] because it's rare,' says [chair of the UK's Youth Libraries Group] Ian Dodds. 'It's not really an issue.'"


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