The potty humor of "Captain Underpants" children's books and the mature exploration of race and family violence by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison in "The Bluest Eye" would seem to have ...

The University Libraries recently celebrated Banned Books Week by hosting its popular Edible Books Festival on Sept. 24. The event celebrates the freedom to read and spotlights current and historical ...

More: John Green, Toni Morrison, Jodi Picoult, Colleen Hoover among most banned authors in Iowa "We decided it was not our job to physically flip through all the books in the library," Butler Abry ...

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie Kept Things Simple “It ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” as they say. So it was with bringing the Captain Underpants books to the big screen with Captain ...

Scholastic Books has announced four new graphic novels in its Captain Underpants series.. The first book - penned by Captain Underpants writer Dav Pilkey - will be titled The Adventures of Ook and ...

A Des Moines Register survey found nearly 1,000 unique titles were removed from Iowa public schools. Classics such as “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “1984” were among the books removed.