Charlotte’s Web , the E.B. White children’s classic that is often a child’s first introduction to the deeper and intangible concepts of life, like the meaning of friendship and the sorrows of death, is pending approval from the Coppell Independent School District’s new Student Library Advisory Council (SLAC). The book, which has been a school library staple since it was first published in 1952, most likely already exists on Coppell school shelves and in its elementary classrooms, but because of a broad, new law that derails the typical school library book-buying process, a fresh copy of Charlotte’s Web now requires approval, and that won’t happen for several weeks.

Less than a month into the school year, Coppell ISD’s book approval list is already 37 pages long, filled with hundreds

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