Popular Information: “Scholastic, the popular publisher of children’s books, is a big business. It is a publicly-traded company with a market capitalization of $1.15 billion. Its CEO, Peter Warwick, collected a total compensation of $3,300,361 in 2023, and at least four other executives were paid over $1.3 million. Since 1981, Scholastic has hosted book fairs inside of schools. Today, according to the company, it puts on “120,000 book sale events in partnership with schools across the country, giving more than 35 million students and their families access to thousands of affordable books.”  But this year, facing pressure from right-wing ideologues, Scholastic is facilitating the exclusion of books that feature people of color and/or LGBTQ characters. Scholastic has grouped many of these titles in a collection called “Share Every Story, Celebrate Every Voice.” School officials are then given the option to exclude the entire set of books from the book fair. Scholastic has, in the words of one librarian, given schools a “bigot button” to exclude these books and mollify intolerant pressure groups…”