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After that bru-ha-ha about some lady writer being shocked to find that she didn't have an automatic entitlement to her book being purchased by every library in the USA (because her chidren's book mentioned mentioned a gay couple)...

I haven't heard that one. Got a link?

I haven't heard that one. Got a link?

I'm sorry that I don't.
This made it onto some of the talk-radio shows maybe 3-4 months ago (Medved? Hewitt?).
I apologize, but the choicest aspect that I recalled was that this lady writer had
produced a children's book that had sold fairly well.
Well, in a subsequent children's book, she just has to slip in a line or two about
a gay couple (that children's book was set in the Bay Area, IIRC).

To cut to the chase, the controversy arose when the writer and her publishers realized
this second childrens book just wasn't being purchased to be added to the collections of
public library.

Of course, the writer is Shocked, Shocked, I tell you, that she's being censored.
Never mind that she or her publisher could chug out millions of copies
and distributed them if they so chose.

Sorry I don't have time to track it down, but I suspect that if you are
truly desirous of tracking it down, you might try something like the website for
the American Library Association and see any sort of listting they have
about "censorship" regarding childrens books.