Challenge news.

• The Tucson situation continues, with so many sources covering it that I'm going to go ahead and link to a Google News search. If you haven't been following the story, this piece at the Huffington Post gives some background, as well as providing a few pictures of the recent student protest. Debbie Reese at American Indians in Children's Literature has the most comprehensive coverage I've seen.
• Books popular with young readers in Vietnam are making censors nervous.
• And, in case you missed it, The Satanic Verses is still so controversial (not to mention still banned) in India that a planned video uplink with Salman Rushdie was cancelled at a recent book festival.