Kirk Cameron, actor and children’s book author, is heading to Fredericksburg, Virginia, to start a first-of-its-kind book fair to counter the large monopoly of book fairs from Scholastic.
After a year of promoting his children’s books, published by up-and-coming conservative Christian publisher BRAVE Books, at various libraries nationwide with crowds of thousands of parents and children, Cameron has found a new avenue for taking his efforts to the next level.
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“We’ve decided to go after the head of the snake and find out who is filling libraries and schools with sexually explicit and gender-confusing material,” he said to WMAL on Wednesday.
“The head of the snake, the dealer of all of this, is Scholastic Books, the largest producer of children’s books in America,” he continued.
Cameron said the billion-dollar company is owned by “woke” companies, such as BlackRock and Vanguard.
“We are offering an alternative to these Scholastic book fairs and encouraging schools through parents and school boards to get rid of Scholastic Books, which is literally putting materials out that can only be described as pornographic,” he said.
The Growing Pains star is planning to counter Scholastic in the parent-movement corridor of northern Virginia that helped Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) flip the governor’s seat red.
He will be hosting the first-ever SkyTree Book Fair at Riverbend High School on Saturday, Dec. 2, in Fredericksburg.
Can’t wait to kick things off in Fredericksburg, VA!
The need for an alternative to Scholastic is clear! Thousands of public and private schools are stepping up and leaning in!
We’re just getting started.? https://t.co/zGz9X8Vfyy
— Kirk Cameron (@KirkCameron) November 14, 2023
Cameron has promoted the event as having “music, hot cocoa, coffee, food trucks, and a book reading” from the children’s book author himself.
Mark Taylor, the superintendent of Spotsylvania County Public Schools, is personally paying for the book fair at no expense to taxpayers.
BRAVE Books spokesman Zach Bell told the Washington Examiner that they anticipate “at least 1,000 people” in attendance at Saturday’s event.
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Spotsylvania County Public Schools is one of the first school districts in the country to begin adding BRAVE Books to its libraries.
“There’s been an amazing resistance to good values at these libraries, but when the parents hear we’re coming, they show up by the thousands,” Cameron said.
