Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name is set to be removed from a major children’s book award after concerns about the “Little House on the Prairie” author’s depiction of certain races in the early to mid-20th century.
The board of the Association of Library Service to Children (ALSC) voted unanimously on Saturday to rename the “Laura Ingalls Wilder Award” as the “Children’s Literature Legacy Award.”
The association, which took the action 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.
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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.”
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