Alberta's revised rules on books in schools will prohibit works containing explicit images of sexual acts, but not written descriptions of the same, according to a new ministerial order published Monday.

The original ministerial order, issued in July, asked school employees to remove library materials that depicted sexual acts, including a "written passage."

That prompted Edmonton Public Schools to assemble a list of 226 books to remove from shelves and classrooms, including well-known works such as

The uproar over the school board's list forced Alberta Education and Childcare Minister Demetrios Nicolaides to last week hit pause to allow government officials to take a second look at the rules.

"We want to ensure that material that has extremely graphic and explicit visual depictions of

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