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The submission deadline has passed and
we are excited for this year's card deck and art exhibit!
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Click here to see the list of covers for 2025.

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Art Reception

Date: Saturday, September 6th 1-3PM

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Banned Books Week is October 5-11, 2025. To raise awareness of book bans and challenges that are still happening, we will once again create a deck of cards representing book covers created by local artists (and a few not so local) that have been banned or challenged.

Click here to see the 2023 reimagined cover art and the artist bios!

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2024 Banned Book Trading Card decks are available for sale for $10 at the circulation desk.

We have a limited supply of 2023 card decks available for purchase as well.​

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Curious about banned or challenged books? Here are some online resources:
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American Library Association list of banned or challenged books:

https://www.ala.org/bbooks

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Here are the 100 most banned and challenged books of the decade:
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/blog/here-are-the-100-most-banned-and-challenged-books-of-the-decade/

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Top 13 Most Challenged Books of 2022:

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10 

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Banned Books Book Club
https://www.bannedbooksbookclub.com/

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Unite Against Book Bans - Book Resumes

https://bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org/

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Updated statistics on censorship attempts in 2023

https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/2023-book-bans/

VALLEY COTTAGE LIBRARY

Phone: 845-268-7700

Fax: 845-268-7760

vclref@rcls.org

110 Route 303, Valley Cottage, NY 10989

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