Bonnie's Story

When Bonnie Wallace picked up a book from the children’s section of her local library, she wasn’t expecting what she found. One look at the pages— and everything changed. That moment lit a fire in her, and she hasn’t looked back since.

Bonnie spent most of her adult life in the Rio Grand Valley, but moved to Llano County in 2011 where she and her husband raised their daughter in Llano ISD and were active in their community. In 2022, Bonnie was appointed to the local library advisory board.

As she dug deeper into what was available to children in Texas libraries, Bonnie uncovered a disturbing trend: sexually explicit, vulgar, and dangerous materials sitting on shelves meant for young readers.

Some of these books glamorize drug and alcohol abuse, promote perversion, and even include QR codes linking to pornographic websites and sex toy stores.

Bonnie has made it her mission to challenge harmful content in taxpayer-funded libraries—not to ban or burn books, but to keep vulgar and sexually explicit material away from children.

Her passion has become a movement. Now, through Behind the Shelves, she’s helping parents across Texas uncover the truth—and giving them the tools to take action.

Let’s stand with her.