Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government is rewriting a ministerial order directing school divisions to ban books containing sexually explicit content to ensure classic books stay on library shelves.

Smith says the order is being changed so it only targets books containing images of sexual content.

The government’s initial order, issued last month, covered books with images, illustrations, audio and written passages with sexually explicit content.

“It’s images that we’re concerned about, graphic images,” Smith said Tuesday at an unrelated news conference in Medicine Hat, southeast of Calgary.

“We were hoping that the school boards would be able to identify those on their own and work with us to try to make sure that pornographic images are not being shown to young children.”

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