Books

Author Nicholas Solis found his voice through writing stories for kids. He will read his latest book “The Littlest Grito" at the festival on Nov. 17.

Livra Books and Curiosities, which opened last weekend in Hyde Park, sells historical books and rare finds from tianguis in Mexico City, New York and Latin America.

More than 10,000 books are banned inside Texas prisons.

Students gathered at the Capitol this week to write letters to Texas lawmakers against book bans. One organizer said she hoped by being there the students would learn the statehouse was their house.

The festival is celebrating its 18th year from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday at the George Washington Carver Museum and Library.

The Lake Travis ISD School Board voted this month to keep one book in the high school library and remove another after a parent with kids in elementary school formally challenged them.

The law, which was scheduled to go into effect in September, requires vendors to rate any books they sell to school districts based on their sexual content and references.

Plaintiffs claimed that the 2023 law, which required book vendors to rate the explicitness of sexual references in materials sold to schools, was unconstitutionally broad.

The African American Policy Forum and The New Republic stopped at Reverie Books last week during a tour of bookstores and libraries to educate communities about how to combat censorship.

The state’s teachers’ union said in a statement it would stand by the state’s public school teachers who “teach the truth.”