Foundation 451

08/07/2025

You asked for them and here they are. And all monies raised go directly to ourchasing book for distribution.

If you want any for your store/bookstore, please let us know.

Foundation 451 presents the Children’s Banned Book Coloring Book featuring the top ten banned picture books across America. Each page includes the title, author, illustrator, and reason for banning. Foundation 451 works to provide students and families with books as they are challenged across our nation. Each purchase goes directly to Foundation 451 to support the cause. The book is written in a dyslexia friendly font for ease of reading for all ages.

Foundation 451 presents the Banned Book Coloring Book featuring titles like “All Boy’s Aren’t Blue,” “Gender Q***r: A Memoir,” “The Perks Of Being a Wallflower,” and others. Foundation 451’s Banned Book Coloring Book showcases the top 10 banned books across America. Every purchase of this coloring book directly supports Foundation 451 in making sure families continue to have access to these books and countless others as they are pulled from shelves across our country. This book has been written with a dyslexia friendly font to ensure ease of reading for all ages.

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Foundation 451 presents the Children’s Banned Book Coloring Book featuring the top ten banned picture books across America. Each page includes the title, author, illustrator, and reason for banning. Foundation 451 works to provide students and families with books as they are challenged across our....

07/28/2025

Rise: Poems of The Resistance.

We will be publishing a book of poetry. The theme is resistance in whatever forms that takes. This will be a fundraiser to Foundation 451 and will be available for sale through many outlets in both digital and paper formats.

Anyone who would like to send in work for publication, please submit up to four poems, no more than two pages each, via email. Each poem as a separate attached Word Doc/docx file with your last name and the title of the poem in the filename. Example: tritt rise.docx.

Please put Rise Submission in the subject line.

Please send them to [email protected]

We'd love to see your work and you can help us continue to get more banned books out to the folks who don't have access to them. All proceeds will go to Foundation 451.

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The mission of Foundation 451 is to get banned and challenged books directly into the hands of students, and to heighten awareness of the need for a plurality of ideas—especially in the arts and literature—to build a society that truly honors freedom, justice, and inclusivity. We want all young ...

06/15/2024

We set up and left a (small) banned book distribution at The Rainbow Run (in good hands) to drive to Tallahassee where we were guests today for The First Amendment Foundation Awards, in Tallahassee at the FSU Law School Rotunda. Thank you so much! Thank you so much for recognizing the import and impact of the world we've been doing and the far-reaching effects of being serious troublemakers. Thank you to everyone who helps make this the serious good trouble it is.

Thank you, Lisa. You were right - we did have to go. Y'all know I didn't want to.

04/21/2024

When it comes time to choose a United Way charity at your workplace, please remember you can write in the nonprofit of your choice. Please consider writing in Foundation 451 so we can get more books to more kids. It really helps.

04/19/2024

Library open tonight, Friday, 4/19, from 6 30 to 8 30 and Sunday, with children's book readings, 4/21 from 1 30 to 3 30.

04/03/2024

Maybe school libraries should try this as well, perhaps sending home such “receipts” to parents.

03/31/2024

We had a special day giving out banned books at Space Coast Pride’s Trans Day of Visibility event in Eau Gallie! 🥰🏳️‍⚧️

Over 100 banned books made it into the hands of families and we met so many wonderful people in the process. A better day is not possible.

Thank you to Keith Straley and Jos, Corey, Chrissy McIlwraith and her son, and Connie Rooke and Scott Rooke for the amazing help in setup, teardown and everything before, after, and in between. Smooth as silk.

03/25/2024

03/25/2024

Before and after - refilling the library at Ben& Jerry's Inclusive Teen Safe Spaces and Reading Area. And the first distribution of our guide to fighting book bans, the Florida edition!