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![The author of the children's book "Love in the Library," about Japanese Americans interned during World War II, received a publication offer from Scholastic, but it wanted her to remove references to racism from the book.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/litl_custom-90e0e303bdd9319c3cc4a2288c813f52af1159c8-e1681592010276-900x422.jpg)
Scholastic wanted to license her children’s book — if she cut a part about ‘racism’
By: Emma Bowman | NPR
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — Maggie Tokuda-Hall was thrilled when she first saw the offer from the publishing giant. Scholastic wanted to license her 2022 children’s book Love in the Library…. Read More