Scholastic faced backlash for putting books dealing with race, gender and sexuality in their own optional category for middle school book fairs. It's now apologizing and working to reverse course.

The Scholastic Book Fair, the still-trucking darling of the nostalgic internet, is in trouble. For weeks, librarians have been reporting an odd experience: When they went to order books for this ...

Scholastic is separating dozens of books focused on race and LGBTQ+ themes into a collection that elementary schools can decide whether to offer or exclude from their book fairs, the publisher ...

On average, a Scholastic book fair tends to make $6,000, which makes the average school profit $1,500 or 3,000 Scholastic dollars, Stone said. In total, schools earn about $200 million through ...

When Scholastic’s book fair returns to elementary schools this year, some books on race and LGBTQ+ issues might be stored in a separate box. Some might be removed entirely.

Her school library at Northside Elementary School, in Chapel Hill, N.C., had long hosted for-profit book fairs, and while they tried to mitigate inequities—by handing out coupons for free books ...

Book fairs run by publisher Scholastic are a staple at schools across the U.S., with the pop-up sales events allowing students to shop for new titles without leaving school property.

Scholastic Book Fairs reach 35 million children annually in all 50 states and internationally. The complete Share Every Story list is not visible to unregistered website visitors, ...

Another on the Scholastic list is "Alma and How She Got Her Name" by Juana Martinez-Neal. It's a picture book that has won a Caldecott Medal. "The little girl, Alma, as well as all of her family ...

Scholastic has backtracked on its decision to separate dozens of books focused on race and LGBTQ+ themes into an optional collection for this year’s elementary school book fairs after weeks of ...

The season for Scholastic Book Fairs has kicked off, a time when students shop for books at annual pop-up fairs in their own hallways. But this year, the massive publisher of children's books ...

Scholastic created a separate fair category for diverse books, which it says is to help schools navigate the complexities of book bans. Librarians accused the company of caving to censorship.