Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name is set to be removed from a major children’s book award after concerns were raised about the “Little House on the Prairie” author’s depiction of certain races in the early-to-mid 20th century.
The Association of Library Service to Children’s (ALSC) board voted unanimously on Saturday to rename the “Laura Ingalls Wilder Award” as the “Children’s Literature Legacy Award.”
The association, which took the vote at its board meeting in New Orleans, said the vote “was greeted by a standing ovation by the audience in attendance.”
Wilder is best known for her “Little House on the Prairie” novels, which the ALSC has stated “includes expressions of stereotypical attitudes inconsistent with ALSC’s core values” based on Wilder’s portrayal of black people and Native Americans.
The first award was given to Wilder in 1954. The ALSC, which is based in Chicago, says her work continues to be published and read but her “legacy is complex” and “not universally embraced.” Source: Fox News
This is so incredibly sad.
These books by Laura Ingalls Wilder deserve to be classics.
They’re magnificent, readable history. They provide an uplifting sense of the frontier spirit we can all apply to our lives no matter what the era.
Yet for unspecified reasons of political correctness, they’re being pulled from library shelves.
Our intellectual “leaders” have lost their minds. Everyone is so afraid of some unseen, hypercritical and psychotically delusional minority.
So it’s up to the rest of us to hunker down, “pray for daylight” and take matters into our own hands while associations like ALSC usher in a new Dark Ages.
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