Decatur-based Little Shop of Stories creates book club to celebrate banned books
Across the nation, in recent years, there’s been a massive wave of books being banned and censored from reading lists, schools and public libraries.
And in response to those restrictions, Little Shop of Stories, a Decatur-based bookstore, recently launched the Banned Books Book Club.
Justin Colussy-Estes, who manages the bookstore, was a guest on Tuesday’s edition of “Closer Look.”
Colussy-Estes said that people ban books for all kinds of reasons, but that it’s very important for people to read and engage and discover the world within a book.
“The problem is not in a bookstore,” Colussy-Estes said. “The problem is in libraries, where people who don’t have the money to buy a book, where kids who don’t have the agency to go out to a bookstore with their own money to buy a book — those are the people who are being denied these books, cause those are the places that are most at risk.”
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