Brave Books includes an interactive play space and reading shelf in our children's area. In years past, we've featured Shakespeare & Company in Paris, the African National Memorial Bookstore in Harlem, the Library of Alexandria and Basra Central Library in Egypt and Iraq, and Casa Camino Real in New Mexico. ![]() “I would love to see it taught in schools and on summer reading lists and we’re going to fight to make that happen,” he said.Brave Books is the Poetry Center's celebration of independent bookstores and libraries from around the world, which features lost, living, and otherwise dramatic and brave oases people have built to protect, house, share, and enjoy books. Talbot said “Elephants are Not Birds” has already been positively received by kids from 4 to 12. “Elephants Are Not Birds” is only available through Brave Books’ website. The company is also courting Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), to write “Fame, Blame, and the Raft of Shame” about cancel culture. Other planned books include, “The Island of Free Ice Cream” by former OAN anchor Jack Posobiec, which will tackle Communism. “I am going to have a little boy in November, and it’s scary to think he could come home and say, ‘My friends all identify as something else and that’s how I feel’ and have my son crying because he’s not put on hormone replacement therapy.”īrave Books is eschewing Amazon and only selling directly from its own website, offering parents a book a month for a $12.99 yearly subscription. “You get special attention now in the classroom if you say, ‘Hey my name is not Billy, it’s Amanda,'” St. The book is an unapologetic rebuke of transgender acceptance and the growing number of young people identifying as trans, says author Ashley St. Memories by McKaylie PhotographyĬulture gives Kevin a pair of wings and a beak to wear, though his attempts to live life as a bird are less than successful in the ensuing pages. “I thought there was a need for books that could help parents teach the values they hold dear.”īrave Books’ first offering is called “ Elephants are Not Birds,” the story of an elephant named Kevin who likes to sing, and then is convinced by a vulture - named Culture - that he warbles so well, he must actually be a bird. ![]() “Once my eyes were open I was seeing it everywhere and I couldn’t unsee it,” Talbot said. “Elephants Are Not Birds” author Ashley St. Kendi’s picture book, “ Antiracist Baby,” which urges parents and kids to “make equity a reality,” as content that needs a counterpoint. ![]() And everywhere I looked was propaganda,” the Montgomery, Texas-based dad told The Post.Īn ophthalmologist by trade, Talbot pointed to Ibram X. ![]() Launching this week, Brave Books will focus exclusively on stories for kids, and offers parents “a conservative alternative to the current cultural activism that our children are being taught in schools, in the entertainment they watch and the books they read,” according to their website.Ĭompany CEO Trent Talbot, who had his first child a little more than a year ago, conceived of Brave Books when, he said, he started to notice “that there is a real war going on for the hearts and minds of our kids. Republicans damned if they do, damned if they don’t in Trump’s 2024 candidacyĪ new conservative publishing house wants to get the “wokeness” out of bedtime. Right-wing investment fund dumps Target stock over ‘woke’ agenda, adds retailer to ‘refuse to buy’ listĭHS funded college program linking Fox News, NRA, RNC to neo-Nazisīoris Johnson tells Republicans why they must support Ukraine
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