The Unburnable Book
Award: Shortlist
Shortlist / Creative Transformation / Products / 2023
Award: Shortlist
Shortlist / PR / Reactive Response
Banning books in US schools and libraries has reached unprecedented levels. As the publisher of one of the most banned books of all time – Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale – Penguin Random House wanted to make a clear statement against censorship. With officials across the US engaging in censorship and threatening to burn books, we asked one simple question: what if they couldn’t? The result was the Unburnable Book, a one-of-a-kind edition of The Handmaid’s Tale specially designed to be impossible to burn.