In response to an American Library Association executive’s recent claim that libraries across the nation should be used for socialist activism, at least one book publisher is pushing back forcefully.
CEO Trent Talbot of the Texas-based Brave Books, as well as Texas Rep. Steve Toth (R-The Woodlands), held a book reading on Saturday, Sept. 23, to share a far different point of view. Talbot and Toth read “The Island of Free Ice Cream” by Jack Posobiec and “The Test of Lionhood” by Kevin Sorbo — two children’s books published by Brave Books that share messages of personal freedom and other traditional values.
Both books are published by Brave Books, a children’s book publisher that aims to “inspire young minds with pro-God, pro-America stories for a brighter future,” according to its website.
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Actor, writer and producer Kirk Cameron, whose books are published by Brave Books, had been scheduled to attend the reading in person but instead made a virtual appearance when travel issues prevented his in-person attendance.
In a video shown at the event, Cameron greeted everyone in attendance.
Texas Rep. Steve Toth and Brave Books CEO Trent Talbot (shown at far right of screen, above) greet attendees and read two Brave Books titles at a story hour this past Saturday in The Woodlands, Texas. (Brave Books)
“Thank you so much for coming this morning, and thank you for bringing your kids,” said Cameron in the video message shown at the event in The Woodlands, a city in Texas near Houston.
“Be encouraged by the words of our Founding Father Samuel Adams, who said, ‘It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather, an irate, tireless minority keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men,'” said Cameron, noting that he would also add “brush fires of faith” to that sentiment.
“We will continue to leave a legacy of liberty for our children.”
“We live in the greatest country in the world,” said Cameron.
“We will continue to leave a legacy of liberty for our children.”
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American Library Association (ALA) President Emily Drabinski — a self-proclaimed Marxist — stated on September 2 that she believed libraries should be a place of socialist organizing.
Since Drabinski’s election to the head of the ALA, the largest nonprofit trade organization for libraries, multiple states including Texas have cut ties with the organization.
A Brave Books event this past Saturday was in response to comments made by Emily Drabinski (above), president of the American Library Association, who has called herself a socialist. (Screenshot Emily Drabinski via YouTube)
“The president of the American Library Association, Emily Drabinski, has done us a great favor,” said Cameron in comments shared with Fox News Digital.
“Her openness about turning our public libraries and schools into ‘sites of socialist organizing’ for the purpose of teaching our children anti-American, anti-Christian ideas is so helpful in fanning the fire of revival that is sweeping across our land,” he said.
“If we want to see a shift in our culture, we have to create the culture we want for our kids.”
