CBLDF: NM School Library Votes To Keep Palomar On The Shelves



Betsy Gomez has welcome news at the CBLDF web site. In February a parent in Rio Rancho was so troubled by the content of Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar, brought home by her high-school aged child that she took her concerns to a local television station where the ambitious comics masterpiece was called "child porn." The news report didn't even show the images, which made the report seem much more damning.

Luckily, clearer heads eventually prevailed, and on March 16 the review committee in charge of the school libary voted 5-3 to keep the book on the shelves.

The CBLDF joined other concerned organizations in signing a letter drafted by Kids Right To Read Project pointing out the work's literary merit, the problems with taken one point of view as the overriding one and asking that the library apply its stated, dispassionate policy towards processing this kind of complaint.
 
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