A Conservative Publisher Wants to Be the Answer to Liberal Children’s Books. There’s Just One Problem.

 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/09/02/mag-weiss-kidsbooks-00053509

Brave Books might represent the peak of the children’s book wars, a proxy fight over cultural values that are playing out over school library shelves and bedtime stories. The mainstream publishing industry, trying to make up for a decades-long lack of diversity in children’s books, has been putting out scores of new titles with main characters of color, LGBTQ themes, and sometimes, explicit lessons about racism. Conservatives have responded with a new wave of book banning, from efforts to strip books from libraries to laws that restrict the kinds of stories schools can share with children. And some are taking a page from the alternative-media playbook and launching competing publishing companies — others have names like Heroes of Liberty and Conservakids — railing against liberal indoctrination as they attempt indoctrination of their own.