A valley mom who pushed to have a book banned from her daughter’s school library has succeeded. Hilary Lockhart says the book ‘Lovingly Alice’ contains graphic details about sex and shouldn’t be available to kids.
Lockhart, the mother of an 8-year-old from Quayle Run Elementary, was shocked when she flipped through the pages of Lovingly Alice.
“As I flipped through, I’m in shock. I was like, I have to go talk to your principal about this,” she says.
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According to the American Library Association, Lovingly Alice is the second most challenged or banned book in libraries in the last decade.
Lockhart says she’d be fine with a sticker on the book that prevents it from being checked out to kids younger than a certain age.
Arizona: "'Sexy' Children's Book Pulled from Library Shelves"
Filed by on May 22, 2011
About Gary PriceGary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.
