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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She was probably hoping for some "new" suggestions.
I had a list of books to check out for my elementary age kids and NONE of them were at the public library. The children's librarian said, and I am not making this up, "We try to stick to 21st-century books here." [/quote]

That's just horribly sad. I'm assuming it's because classics - even children's classics - contain racist and misogynist language and the library doesn't want to fight people who don't understand that they still need to be read, because:
A. Apart from that, they usually have much richer vocabulary and more grammatical and sentence structure complexity, which is great for brain development.
B. They teach about bygone eras. History is always good to learn about, because that context helps to understand the modern world.
C. Passages and comments that are inappropriate must not be avoided, but explained by librarians and parents, in order for children not to grow up in vacuums that will then make them easy prey for our current crop of misogynists and xenophobes.
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There was zero racist misogynist language in any of the books I was looking for. I'm talking about "Dear Mr. Henshaw" by Beverly Cleary. Stuff like that.
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