'Everywhere Babies,' a picture book celebrating infants, just got banned

[Nevilledog]

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The inspiration for the popular children’s picture book “Everywhere Babies” came to author Susan Meyers more than 25 years ago, after the birth of her first grandchild. It was around Christmas, she recalls, and she kept seeing Nativity scenes everywhere — baby Jesus embraced by his doting mother, surrounded by kindly visitors. Meyers, deeply smitten with her 5-month-old grandson, was struck by the everyday, extraordinary miracle of babies in their earliest months of life, how their development touches the lives of everyone around them. So she decided to write about it.

Since its publication in 2001, “Everywhere Babies” — a whimsical, lyrical ode to infancy, illustrated by Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Marla Frazee — has become a staple of family bookshelves, a common recommendation in new parent groups, and a celebrated title on Best Books lists.

But for the first time in its history, “Everywhere Babies” was featured this week on an entirely different kind of list: The book was among dozens of works recently banned from public school libraries in Walton County, Fla. School district officials confirmed the removal of the books to WJHG-TV in Florida. Walton County School Superintendent Russell Hughes told the outlet that it was “necessary in this moment for me to make that decision and I did it for just a welfare of all involved, including our constituents, our teachers, and our students.”

Hughes did not respond to requests for comment from The Washington Post. A spokesperson for the Florida Department of Education referred questions to Walton County, noting that “individual school districts are responsible for making these decisions,” and did not respond to follow-up questions.

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[txwhitedove]

1. But why? It's Florida again...

Edit to add: Found book on Amazon with newest review stating LGBT, has same sex couple.

Good grief. Turning beauty into ugliness to match their dirty souls.

[Demovictory9]

8. A couple of images show same sex parents

[madaboutharry]

2. I am having a hard time wrapping my head around this insanity.

There is an evil undercurrent to these book bans. The message from the book banning crowd is clear: Only White Straight Christian people count. Everyone else is a lesser being.

[Hugin]

3. I guess they think it's a crypto cookbook.

Par for the course in the dying embers of a rational world.

[Walleye]

4. This book banning shit is an embarrassment to me and to most Americans

How are we gonna be the beacon of free speech on earth if we keep this shit up

[Initech]

5. OMFG! They ruin everything!

[ChazII]

6. Sigh...

[struggle4progress]

7. "I thought some of the babies looked gay; I was worried the math in the book

was smuggling-in critical race theory; and over-all I detected a Disney influence"