Kirk Cameron, actor and children’s book author, is heading to Fredericksburg, Virginia, on Dec. 2 to host a book fair.
“ANNOUNCEMENT! The support has been incredible from teachers, parents, and school board members nationwide who desire an alternative to @Scholastic. I am heading to Fredericksburg, VA, on December 2nd for our first Public School Book Fair,” Cameron said in a post on social media Monday.
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ANNOUNCEMENT!
The support has been incredible from teachers, parents, and school board members nationwide who desire an alternative to @Scholastic. I am heading to Fredericksburg, VA, on December 2nd for our first Public School Book Fair at Riverbend High School!
We are going… pic.twitter.com/Qh7klp3MXl
— Kirk Cameron (@KirkCameron) November 13, 2023
He continued, “We are going to have music, hot cocoa, coffee, food trucks, a book reading of my book As You Grow, and, of course, tons of age-appropriate books for families to explore!”
The Growing Pains star has been an advocate for age-appropriate children’s books and has received backlash for his efforts to read his children’s books at various public libraries across the country amid the trend of drag queen story hour events for children.
Cameron has raised awareness of BRAVE Books, an up-and-coming conservative book publisher created by former ophthalmologist Trent Talbot, who wanted faith-based children’s books that teach traditional values. The actor has collaborated with BRAVE to publish three children’s books, Pride Comes Before the Fall, As You Grow, and, recently, The Fox, The Fair, and the Invention Scare.
The December book fair in Virginia is being held at a Spotsylvania County high school. The SkyTree book fair aims to be an alternative to Scholastic’s monopoly on holding book fairs in schools. Scholastic, in recent years, has been publishing controversial children’s books, including Welcome to St. Hell, a book that promotes gender transitioning to middle schoolers. Cameron is hoping to grow SkyTree’s book fairs by kicking off their inaugural event in December.
Mark Taylor, the superintendent of Spotsylvania Public Schools, invited Cameron and the SkyTree book fair to come to one of his local schools. Taylor is paying for the book fair event out of his own pocket at no expense to taxpayers.
“This event is about promoting positive content, encouraging parent engagement, and community discussion about what our children are learning in school,” Taylor told the Washington Examiner.
This summer, the superintendent and the conservative board of Spotsylvania County Public Schools received criticism when they approved various book donations from BRAVE Books to be in school libraries.
The Spotsylvania school district flipped to conservative control in November 2021 and immediately dismissed the then-sitting superintendent for conservative superintendent, Mark Taylor, who improved school safety and community engagement and increased academic reading and math scores.
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However, an uproar from activists upset by the school board’s focus on the “appropriateness of content” rather than promoting more LGBT content in school libraries led to the conservative board losing its majority in the hotly contested Virginia school district during last Tuesday’s Virginia election losses.
The superintendent and conservative school board have until January to maintain their oversight of the Spotsylvania schools before the board changes. The book fair will be one of its last efforts to bring age-appropriate books to the schools.
