![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mariko and Jillian Tamaki won multiple awards for This One Summer when it was published in 2014, including the Caldecott Medal, the Printz, and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Children’s Illustration. The book was banned and challenged for “profanity, sexual references, and certain illustrations.” This One Summer, which is published in Canada by Groundwood Books, was listed as the seventh most-challenged book, as determined by media stories tracked by the Office for Intellectual Freedom and incidences of books being challenged reported voluntarily to the OIF. The coming-of-age story co-created by the cousins is about summer-vacation friends who find their beachfront adventures evolving as they befriend some older teens and grapple with family dysfunction. The 2014 graphic novel This One Summer by the Canadian team of Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki has been listed as one of the Most Challenged Books by the American Library Association for the second time. ![]()
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